By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - All of us face multiple “deaths,” even before we depart this life, and we’ll do better if we willingly embrace them... Our Lord shows the way. Yes, famously, His human nature recoiled from the harsh tortures of the Cross, when He asked in the garden whether the cup might pass from Him. (Lk 22:42) And yet, as St. Alphonsus Liguori points out in his Passion and the Death of Jesus Christ, Jesus went to the garden despite knowing it would begin His Passion ....