To be vigil is to be wakeful for a purpose - to prepare for a holy occasion. “Could you not keep awake for one hour?” Jesus asked his followers. This practice signifies the hours where Christ and his apostles went to the Garden of Gethsemane as Christ prayed that the cup of suffering might pass from him. We invite all church members to come and pray silently and keep watch at the altar of repose and in the presence of the reserved sacrament during the hours that Christ would have prayed in the garden.