Account: When a Dying Woman Prayed to Die As Jesus Did

[mdgspencer]

see catholicregister.org/faith/columnists/item/22429-faith-challenged-in-our-final-hours

 The family of this woman with deep faith and virtue expected her to die calm and unafraid--but she asked to die as Jesus did, who cried out on the cross.

Why would his mother be undergoing this disquiet when for all her life she had been a woman of such strong faith?

Initially this unsettled him deeply, until a deeper understanding of faith broke through. His mother had been a woman who every day of her adult life had prayed to Jesus, asking Him to empower her to live as He lived and to die as He died. Well, seemingly, her prayer was heard. She did die like Jesus who, though having a rock-solid faith, sweated blood while contemplating His own death and then cried out on the cross…

…Sometimes for a person of deep faith it doesn’t happen this way and instead he or she dies calm and unafraid, buoyed up by faith like a safe ship on stormy waters. Why does this happen to some and not to others? We have no answer. Faith doesn’t put us all on the same conveyor belt where one dynamic fits all. Sometimes people with deep faith die, as Jesus did, in darkness and fear, and sometimes people with deep faith die in calm and peace.

 

[Beautiful]

I always wondered about the difference. This is a good explanation.

 

[ClearWater]

Thanks for this explanation!

 

[thistle]

see catholicregister.org/faith/columnists/item/22429-faith-challenged-in-our-final-hours

 The family of this woman with deep faith and virtue expected her to die calm and unafraid--but she asked to die as Jesus did, who cried out on the cross.

Why would his mother be undergoing this disquiet when for all her life she had been a woman of such strong faith?

Initially this unsettled him deeply, until a deeper understanding of faith broke through. His mother had been a woman who every day of her adult life had prayed to Jesus, asking Him to empower her to live as He lived and to die as He died. Well, seemingly, her prayer was heard. She did die like Jesus who, though having a rock-solid faith, sweated blood while contemplating His own death and then cried out on the cross…

…Sometimes for a person of deep faith it doesn’t happen this way and instead he or she dies calm and unafraid, buoyed up by faith like a safe ship on stormy waters. Why does this happen to some and not to others? We have no answer. Faith doesn’t put us all on the same conveyor belt where one dynamic fits all. Sometimes people with deep faith die, as Jesus did, in darkness and fear, and sometimes people with deep faith die in calm and peace.

Can somebody point me to verses in Scripture that shows Jesus asking to die and showing that he was afraid when he died. I do not believe either is the case.