Dear friends of Gethsemane, Peace be with you!
We will join you with this writing wishing you a new year… may it be in the Lord!This time of the Lord’s Christmas is characterized by the song of the Angels made to the little shepherds. Let the little ones take us by the hand to be among the little ones whom the Lord loves! This mystery of the Incarnation it is the great mystery of God’s desire to commit himself to us, men and women, beyond our capacity and awareness to welcome it. I share with you a thought that we too have received in these days. Every human being, beyond his beliefs, wants to grow… evolve! Actually, the child wishes to grow up as an adult; every human being, through intelligence, culture, formation, wants to become powerful to invent, build, dominate. Dominance leads man to desire to reign (in the political, social, religious order), with the great risk of becoming “god” against creation and creatures, that creeps like a poison silently! In all this ascent by the man, only God, the Most High, has the desire to become a Child!!! This is our God! “Before Me no one was God, no one after Me: before Me will bend every knee, and every tongue will give honour” (Antiphon to the Magnificat of First Vespers, 3rd Sunday of Advent). So it also happened HERE in Gethsemane, in the Garden where the Son of the Most High, united to the will of the Father, decided, in meekness and smallness, to sing eternally the superhuman Love for all of us, love that no force of any kind can stop. Let us share in this plan of salvation by saying our thanks, interceding for all humanity in need, becoming small and hopeful in the face of the complex history that is in the hands of the one Lord, Triune God and One!
