At the moment of His entrance into this world Our Savior offers Himself to His Father to be the universal Victim.  His whole life is to be a cross and a martyrdom.  He sheds just enough tears to prove the tenderness of His Heart, manifests just enough anger to inspire the guilty with salutary fear. Otherwise He preserves in a wonderful serenity, even longing for that baptism of blood wherewith He will cleanse the world.  Now His hour is come. Restricting the joys of the Beatific Vision to the topmost region of His Soul, He voluntarily delivers up each of His faculties and His entire Body to the most terrible agony.  By His own free choice, He abandons Himself to fear, weariness, disgust; and His Soul is sorrowful even unto death.  He beholds our accumulated sins, the rights of His Father criminally ignored, immortal souls heading for the abyss, the torments and ingratitude that await Him; and the sight plunges Him in an ocean of bitterness.  Three times He appeals to the mercy of His Father: “If it be possible let this chalice pass from Me,” and He is pleased that an angel comes from heaven to console Him.  A sweat of blood inundates Him, but on that account He prays the longer: “My Father, not My will but Thine be done.”  –Abbot Dom Vitalis Lehodey ‘Holy Abandonment’