num_pages: 209
description: Here for the ordinary reader is an unforgettable moment-by-moment account that brings to vivid life the powerful events that transpired between Jesus' Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and His death on the Cross at Golgotha.Told accurately and in a manner interesting and intelligible it actually provides a fuller treatment of the Passion than is found in the Gospels. You see those Gospels were written for first century readers already familiar with many of the persons places parties and politics that colored events in those long-past days. Not so modern readers twenty centuries later! Which is why Fr. Ralph Gorman has here crafted for us a single detailed narrative out of the four Gospels weaving into his narrative relevant Old Testament passages and prophecies and facts from Jewish and Roman history laws beliefs traditions and practices plus helpful first century military political geographical and archaeological information. Faithful to the Gospels while drawing on the best commentaries on them in English Latin French German and Italian these rich pages provide you a refreshing reading of the Gospels supplemented by reliable archaeological historical and theological information about the period places and persons involved. Plus you have the benefit of Fr. Gorman's keen depictions of the Gospel places based on his three years' residence there.You can read this book straight through or one chapter a day as spiritual reading before Mass or during Lent. Either way you'll come to understand better the malice of the crowds the dismay and confusion of Christ's friends and the speed with which the deadly events unfolded. Most of all you'll come to grasp anew the depths of Christ's love for you awakening in you greater devotion to Him than ever before.
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title: The Last Hours of Jesus: From Gethsemane to Golgotha
publisher: Sophia Institute Press