Excerpt from the book Meditations for all the Days of the Year - Let us adore Our Lord in the Garden of Olives, seeing from thence, clearly and distinctly, the sins of all ages, of which He had assumed the expiation. The sight throws Him into mortal anguish; He weeps over the offense committed against God and the ruin of man, not only with tears in His eyes, but with the blood of His body; He weeps in all His members, St. Bernard says, and inundates the ground with tears of blood (Luke 22:44)