Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you all.
In these days of suffering we celebrate the Holy Mass every day at the foot of the Holy Rock that received the drops of the precious Blood sweated by our Saviour and, in particular, every Thursday the votive Mass, which commemorates the agony of our Lord Jesus Christ. Whoever was here learns and knows.
These are days of great trial and loss for all, time seems to stop in a mysterious and dark nightmare. Many of us have been touched and perhaps will be by this epidemic; torn from family relationships, we know that some die alone in hospital or in their own homes... deprived of the affection and closeness of their loved ones and of a spiritual accompaniment to this passage! One breathes anguish in the deepest bitterness of being powerless in the face of this scourge. Even technology and communication show their limits and the fragility of man emerges, perhaps a greater awareness: it is not God! Moreover, we learn and know that many live the discomfort and pain of being deprived of the Eucharist, "medicine of immortality".
We would like to be with you all as a caress that comforts the soul of many people known only by the Creator, faces that we know cry out to Him day and night. Never as at this moment do we hear the cry and the lament of suffering humanity. We perceive Gethsemane throughout the world, in those who now pray, struggle, sweat 'blood'; in those who now suffer, in those who ask for closeness, in the dark and in solitude.
With this prayer-thought, like the Angel who HERE in Gethsemane consoled our Lord, we wish to be a 'bridge' and reach each one of you, from the smallest to the largest, to tell you that in that 'Yes' that Jesus pronounced in this Holy Land, in the offering of his Life, there is still all his divine strength and his decision to stay with us. Still today he repeats "stay here with me" (Mt 26:38). He doesn’t abandon any of us.
Let us be taken by the hand of Him with great trust! He learns and knows, reaches everyone, who believes being in the ‘rule’and who thinks he is not... has shed his Blood for all of us! Let us all feel spiritually called HERE to Holy Mass. Let us be taken by the hand of his great Promise: "I have not lost any of those whom the Father has given to me" (cf Jn 18:9).Feel remembered by this Holy Place where we welcome your intentions of prayer and place them on this Rock of agony, ‘Altar on the world’M, invoking, through the intercession of Mary Most Holy and of all the Angels and Saints, the Blessing of the Lord on all humanity.
