Peace to you from the garden of Gethsemane, the place loved by the
Lord! Among the many gifts that the Lord has given us in this month I
have received a particular light from the Lord by giving the spiritual exercises
to...
From the Garden of the Lord, peace to you! In these days the liturgy of the Word is telling us the history of Salvation and the encounter that the people of Israel had with God who manifested himself with power, freeing him from...
The Gethsemane, with its gate managed by the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, represents a historic symbol of great importance.Brother Diego, a Franciscan friar, is responsible for the hermitage in this special place,...
This month of July, for us HERE has begun with the Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood of the Lord, with the celebration and
opening of the Centenary of the present Basilica (1/7/2024), which guards the Rock in which the Lord has...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you.In the last newsletters we have tried to contemplate the mystery that God accomplishes in the Garden. We have
seen how this place is not just a geographical place, identifiable with Gethsemane,...
In this Easter season, dear friends of the holy garden, the Lord invites us to taste ever more deeply the
mystery of the Redemption. On these Sundays, we have heard how Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified,
is the glorious Christ, the...
It is in the garden that the Creator opens a wound from the side of man to give him the joy of the relationship: the
woman. It was in the same garden that man and woman, deceived by the divisor, opened a mortal wound for all
humanity,...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his Peace!
In this month it seems right to share with you a part of the letter of our Custos of the Holy Land, on the occasion of the emergency
of the earthquake victims. We all...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his Peace!
In this usual wish that we make to you, we ourselves desire peace and we ask it of the Lord insistently, even when 'contrary winds'
seem to want to imply with greater...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you!
We have just crossed the threshold of the New Year, and it seems right to us to hope that it will be a time in which the Lord can be
a centre and a source of hope for all of us believers...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you!We have just entered the liturgical season of Advent, a time in which the Lord gives us so many opportunities to discover his boundless love and his Presence in our lives and in our history....
Dear friends of
Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his peace! This month I wish
to share with you a light that the Lord has 'given' to me and that I still
perceive full of love, and when I think about it, it still moves me....
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.