Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you!
I wish to share with you a light, a thought, which I received from the Lord in a moment of prayer in this holy place. I hope it can also help your prayer. When we pray, we usually ask the Lord many things, sometimes even weird ... But we are not the first! The Gospels also tell us of these requests or prayers made to Jesus. We also heard them in the Gospel reading a few Sundays ago: "Lord, are they few who are saved?" (Lk 13:23). It seems to me very profound the answer of Jesus who knows well our hearts: "Strive to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter it, but they will not succeed" (Lk 13, 24). It seems to me very important in our prayer to become familiar with the Lord and ask him questions that concern him, his love, his promise of eternal love! On this Rock on which he sweated his most holy Blood in that suffering "May your will be done ..." (Lk 22:42), it came to me to ask the Lord: "Lord, tell me ... how much have you loved us?" I imagined it with a regal and solemn smile, moved and joyful, with arms wide open ... in the shape of a cross! Truly Lord you loved us to die! You are the Door of life, the Door of love! (Jn 10, 7). He himself explains the secret of this love: "For this reason the Father loves me: because I offer my life and then take it again" (Jn 10:17). HERE in Gethsemane, in this Garden, on this Rock, everything helps us to see and to believe concretely how He himself passed from this narrow door through the offer of his life. We all have difficulty in truly giving life, instead we are led to preserve it, defend it ... until the delirious desire to possess it! Before any rule, imperative, obligation or lifestyle that we aim to live, even morally, I think it is important to stop and contemplate this immeasurable Love of the Lord which he continually tries to show us and give us whenever we turn to Him. Here at Gethsemane everything "shines" and tells how Jesus seeks us and we seek Him.Let’s pray so that every creature allow their Creator meet them.
PS: I make you share some data on our site, not to feed delusions of grandeur, but to feel more and more in communion with the Church 'invisible' but more than ever real, hoping that the Lord can be more and more welcomed, loved and consolated. Here the data:1. NEWSLETTER REGISTRATIONS ARE 1400 (sometimes a registration refers to a whole group made up of several people);2. THOSE WHO ARE REAL AND OWN MEMBERS OF THE HOLY HOUR ARE 770 (even here an inscription does not always correspond to a single person, but to prayer groups);3. The WORLD COUNTRIES from which the Site has been visited are 176; 4. From September 2017 until today, visits to the Site in total are around 80,000.
We greatly thank those who work in silence for the Lord, let us invoke the blessing of the Lord!
