Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! We are in the first steps of Advent, strong and full of waiting time, in which the holy liturgy invites us to watch over, be careful, prepare ourselves to welcome the Lord who comes!We...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his Peace! In the last months the beauty and Mystery that the Lord manifests in the Gospel resonates strongly in me. Especially HERE in Gethsemane all the humanity that He wanted...
Peace to you all friends of Gethsemane. This month is characterized for us by the feast of St. Francis and it is a particularly significant year, because exactly 800 years ago, the Poverello of Assisi, came as a pilgrim and witness...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you! I wish to share with you a light, a thought, which I received from the Lord in a moment of prayer in this holy place. I hope it can also help your prayer. When we pray, we usually...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you from Jerusalem! The Word that has been given to us these days, with power illuminates our journey as disciples, the time we are living and the place in which we find ourselves, physically...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to all of you. This month of July for us is characterized by the Solemnity of the Precious Blood of Jesus which we HERE celebrate with the Pontifical Mass in the Basilica of Agony (1st July).It...
The communion that Jesus lives with the Father is intimate in his divinity and is not separated from his humanity, even in the darkest moments. We often imagine Jesus, here in Gethsemane, alone, suffering and abandoned: this is a mistake,...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you! The whole Church is living a very intense time where the risen Lord illuminates every circumstance of our life, even those circumstances in which there is hatred and violence.I wish...
Some time ago Italian newspapers gave news of a fact that caused a stir and moved manypeople. It was about a newborn that had been abandoned, wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown into thegarbage can. One person, who heard the child's...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, the Lord will give you his Peace! At the beginning of this special time of Lenten way, I would like to share with you this mosaic thatis found in our Basilica: it represents the kiss that Judas Iscariot...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! We invite you to come here with us with your imagination, to be able to contemplate in these days the beauty of nature, admire and feel the sweet perfume of the almond tree in bloom. Along...
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...
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.