Peace to you all friends of Gethsemane.
This month is characterized for us by the feast of St. Francis and it is a particularly significant year, because exactly 800 years ago, the Poverello of Assisi, came as a pilgrim and witness of peace here to the Holy Land, staying until 1220, before returning in Italy. While the Fifth Crusade was raging and it seemed that the only possible language was that of weapons, Francis of Assisi crosses the lines of war and overcame the logic of the clash of civilizations in progress, simply following the divine inspiration that led him to believe in the possibility of fraternal encounter with every creature.We ask you for your closeness in prayer so that we can be a "mediation" for the man of today, as our father St. Francis was. It is not true that one must be perfect or in "rule" (of the same thought) before being able to open the Gospel! Instead, the opposite is true: sometimes by opening the Gospel it is possible to dialogue and discover in the other the image of God, that "neighbor" of which Jesus speaks in the Gospel.We pray for the concerns that our humanity lives, threatened by economic blackmail and alleged wars that weigh on the poorest and the defenseless forced to move in search of a future that more often than not turns into a suffered "hell". God sees all this and still asks justice today!
Let us invoke Peace together, from this Earth loved by the Lord, from this Garden in which the Son of God has sweated Blood. Mary Most Holy intercedes for us.
