Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his peace.For us Franciscan friars, the beginning of October opens with the solemnity of Saint Francis of Assisi (4 October). We always perceive an invitation to be bearers of peace...
Peace to you, dear friends of the Garden loved by the Lord.In this month we wish to pray with you to the Lord to grow in the gaze of faith that he HERE has revealed to us. We are all, in most cases, inclined to evaluate, observe, decide...
May the Lord grant you his peace, dear friends of Gethsemane.In this month that has just begun, we wish to share with you two lights in the hope that they may help us to love Jesus "the Unloved Love" (Saint Francis).The first: looking...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his peace.From this holy place a special prayer is raised on July 1 to the Father for the gift of the Most Precious Blood of his Son, our Saviour. A unique solemnity, which is celebrated...
Dear friends of the Garden of the Lord, peace to you.In these days of waiting for the gift of the Holy Spirit, from this mystical Garden, we contemplate with wonder the mystery of the Redemption that is manifested in Ascension and...
Peace to you all from the Garden loved by the Lord.We are celebrating the Passover of the Lord, "the Lord is with us to the close of the age" (cf. Mt 28:20). Despite this, we cannot hide the evident presence of evil that brings many...
HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS, BUT MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS (Mk 13,31) Peace to you all from Jerusalem.Our Lenten journey is approaching the great Paschal Mystery that has been accomplished in this very...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! We are living dramatic days for what is happening between Russia and Ukraine, and despite a certain apprehension and concern we are invited not to let ourselves be discouraged...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord give you his peace. In this time of the new year we are living with hope and expectation the decline of the pandemic. Many of us, rightly, manifest the desire to want to return ‘to...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you! In this Christmas season and at the beginning of the new year we have had and will have the great gift of listening to and meditating on the mystery of the Incarnation: God becomes...
Dear friends, peace be with you from the Garden of Gethsemane! We have already entered the strong time, the Advent. It is a very special time in which we are called to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation, in the splendour...
Dear friends, peace be with you all from Jerusalem! In these days the Lord through his Word invites us to enter the narrow gate (Lk 13:24). In another context, He will say "I am the door..." (Jn 10:7-9). References in the holy...
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.
