Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you all!
Listening to the Word of God, which we welcomed last week, has repeatedly drawn my attention to the invitation that HERE at Gethsemane the Lord makes to the disciples of all times: "watch and pray" (Mt 26:41)! An explicit invitation was in this passage:'' So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. Try to understand this: if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect '' (Mt 24,42-44).
Thereafter the Lord in the parable makes the example of the faithful servant who lives his service thinking and loving and waiting therefore, the return of his landlord... watching. In contrast there is the dishonest servant who does not care about the landlord and begins to behave badly, forgetting the service that his master entrusted him, as if he did not return, and even worse, did not exist!
I am very impressed by Jesus' invitation: ''Try to understand this:...''. It is a sweet and strong invitation, as if he wanted to awaken our consciences, an ever-present invitation! In our somewhat confused time, where everything seems fluctuating, unimportant or useless, the Lord’s invitation -to pray and to watch- can take on this very important meaning: to remain faithful in the little things, in the daily events of our lives, as little disciples, humble, who recognize and know that the Lord is there, will return and that his Promise is eternal and worthy of absolute trust!
Let us thank, pray, watch with the Lord from THIS garden, so that his will may be fulfilled.
