Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you from Jerusalem!
In these days we are welcoming the great gift of the Word of God, which always tells us the richness of the encounter. Sometimes it is God who seeks man and visits him with his mysterious presence, as the 'three men' who meet Abraham at the oak of Mamre (Gen 18,1-15), other times it is the man who seeks the Lord asking for the grace of healing, physical and spiritual, like the Centurion who asks for the healing of the sick servant, Peter’s mother-in-law who is healed and many others possessed and sick that punctually He frees and heals! (cf. Mt 8:5-17). Whatever the perspectives and situations, even in differences, the encounter takes place: God makes himself known, intervenes and acts. He does not remain indifferent to the needs of humanity in need. This way of being-doing-acting of God helps us to contemplate the mystery of Gethsemane. Jesus HERE desires the encounter with us, with humanity in need of redemption... Indeed it seems He is in need of us to redeem us. What a Mystery! God-Man but as Man-God! Let us ask the Lord for the grace to be, even in our littleness, disciples who console him, who love him, who welcome him just as he, the Most High God, wishes to present himself to us in need of us ... in the humility of our human condition.
On this first Thursday of July, in our Basilica we solemnly celebrate the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus; join us in prayer, may his Blood be shed on all souls in need of redemption and on all humanity.
United in prayer in the Lord!
