Dena Hunt

“No, no. You shall make no such confession, Stephen. I am sure that if he is still alive now, if Father Joseph rejoices, he is also full of terror. He is a man, Stephen, just as you are. Listen, he told me some years ago that he reads St. John’s account of Gethsemane every day. It reminds him that our Lord himself desired not to suffer, not even for his Father’s will. Never deny your own humanity, lest you deny the same humanity of our Lord.” He saw that Stephen struggled with this admonition. “Hold your fear close to your heart, even cherish it, for that is where you share our Savior’s Cross — not in his divinity, but in his humanity, in his Gethsemane.” He was relieved to learn that the young man was no zealot, that he had the good sense to be frightened — it would make him cautious.”
― Dena Hunt, Treason: A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England