Dear friends of Gethsemane Peace to you! We have just begun the new year and perhaps we still have in our mind and in our heart the manger of Bethlehem that welcomed the Lord who became man. Often in these Christmas days I found...

The living way that the Lord is giving us by listening to his Word, and now for a few days the waiting for his Advent, have led me many times to consider this Holy Place. But I must say that the mystery of God's way of being and acting...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! The Gospel that we heard last Sunday continues to accompany me, especially the delicacy that Jesus has towards Bartimaeus, the blind man of Jericho, surprises me. Jesus has again seduced...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you peace! This first Thursday of the month falls on a special occasion for us Franciscans: it is the day of our beloved Father Saint Francis. The liturgical coincidence of this little-great...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you. This month we want to share a text from a hermit who loves this holy place and the Lord. Looking at the city of COMPLETION let us pray that we can fulfill the plan of salvation that God has...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you. Our prayer this month would want to pay attention to what the Lord lived here in Gethsemane as God and as Man. When we think of the Lord here in his anguish we sometimes risk, on...

his month I would like to share a story taken from the sermons of St. Anthony of Padua. When I heard it (at the Saint's party, on June 13th), I was moved. Later I understood the reason: it is a Sermon on Holy Thursday, in which Saint...

In these days we are encouraged by the sacred liturgy to welcome the Mystery of the Lord's Wedding through the Sunday solemnities that help us to discover how much the Lord loves us! Such Nuptials are also told on the last Sunday,...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! These days of the Easter season are illuminated from the Promise of Jesus, from the strength of his Word and the communion with the Father and with us. The peace and grace that the Lord...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you from the Holy Garden. This coming Thursday we will celebrate Holy Hour at 9:00 p.m. (local time). We contemplate how God acts silently in the daily actions of the human being ... as...

This month our prayer is enriched by the Lenten way that will lead us to the resplendent Light of the Passover of Our Lord Jesus Christ. How much, how much he loves us! I would like to share with you an intention for our prayer...

Normally when here in Gethsemane I am in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament I focus my attention on the invitation that Jesus makes to his disciples... to his way of praying and acting, gentle and insistent in the struggle. I feel...