Believers must remain alert to evil, pope says
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VATICAN CITY — When Jesus asked His disciples to stay awake while He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was asking every believer throughout history to remain awake to the reality of God and to the reality of sin, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Jesus' request that His disciples keep watch was "a permanent message for all times because the drowsiness of His disciples was not just a problem in that moment; it is a problem throughout history," the pope said April 20.
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