Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you all. In this time, a little confused and uncertain, ordinary life for many nations is destabilized and the consequences are always the poorest and the most needy. Let us ask the Lord the grace to read this historical time with his eyes, with our gaze fixed on him, who knows and learns about… so that we may grow in trust in God who never abandons us. In our spiritual readings we have found a script in which Jesus “dictates” to a mystical soul the Holy Hour". We bring you only a small part that seems to help us to live this time with Him HERE in Gethsemane: ''I am God and your Servant, and I am here waiting for you to say to me, "I am hungry" to give myself as Bread to you. (...) I am God and I beg you to love my heart. I beg you. For your love, if you love me, it is good for you. I am God. With or without your love I am always God. But you are not. Without my love you are nothing: dust. I want you with me. I want you here. I want to make, from your dust, a light of bliss. I want you not to die. But live, because I am Life and I want you to have Life''. Let us pray, let us thank the Lord for his eternal and immeasurable love! Let us intercede together at the Altar of God for all humanity with great confidence that God never abandons us and wants our salvation.
Hora Sancta
We are the sons of St. Francis, and we are THE custodians, according to the will of God, of one of the places that Jesus loved the most: the garden called GETHSEMANE. This is a unique place in the world. It is the place where the Lord manifested his Yes forever by being ready to enter where nobody else had ever entered, where he plunged into darkness, in the final battle against death, in which humanity has always ended up being a loser.