READER 1	Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives,
READER 2	and his disciples followed him.
READER 3	and his disciples followed him.
READER 1	On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."
READER 2	Pray
READER 3	Pray
READER 2	Pray
READER 1	That you will not enter into temptation."
READER 2	That temptation will not sway you,
READER 3	That temptation will not entice you,
READER 2	That you will not enter into it.
READER 1	Jesus withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,
READER 2	He knelt down.
READER 3	He prayed.
READER 1	"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
READER 2	Father
READER 3	My Father
READER 2	Father, how comforting it is to call you "Father" when all is crashing down around me.
READER 1	Take this cup from me.
READER 2	Take this mission, this task, from me.
READER 3	Take the specter of the cross from me.
READER 1	The pain
READER 2	The loneliness
READER 3	The spiritual burden
READER 2	The desolation
READER 3	Take this cup from me.
READER 1	If it's possible
READER 2	If you can find it in your plan
READER 3	If you're willing
READER 1	Not my will
READER 2	But yours
READER 1	Not my revulsion from what I see before me
READER 3	But your will for my life
READER 1	Not my will
READER 2	But yours be done
READER 1	An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.
READER 2	An angel
READER 3	An angel from heaven
READER 1	Appeared to him
READER 2	Strengthened him in his intense spiritual struggle.
READER 1	And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly,
READER 2	Anguish!
READER 3	Prayer!
READER 1	And his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
READER 2	Sweat poured off him as he labored in prayer.
READER 3	Anguish.
READER 2	Prayer.
READER 1	When he rose from prayer
READER 2	And went back to the disciples,
READER 3	He found them asleep,
READER 1	Exhausted from sorrow.
READER 2	Worn down by sorrow.
READER 3	Wiped out.
READER 1	"Why are you sleeping?" he asked them.
READER 2	Don't sleep!
READER 3	"Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation."
READER 1	Arise
READER 2	Pray
READER 3	That you will not enter into temptation.