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 to share with you a phrase of Jesus that still goes back to my heart and that HERE, in this valley, in this City, where the Scriptures were fulfilled, still resounds: "Do you understand what I have done for you?" (Jn 13 , 12). The context in which he says it is the washing of the feet... but it seems important to me to listen again to this question of Jesus in the light of all that happened in the Paschal mystery: here at the Cenacle, here at Gethsemane, at the Gallicantum, at the Flagellation, at the Via Crucis, at Calvary and at the new Tomb, now empty! Even today his Word resounds loudly and with gentle power: "Do you understand what I have done for you?". We perceive this question of his as a precious treasure of his greatest love, which opens us to the heavenly realities of the Face of the Father, who gave us the Son and who poured out his love in us... "Do you understand what I have done for you?"
