Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his Peace!
In the last months the beauty and Mystery that the Lord manifests in the Gospel resonates strongly in me. Especially HERE in Gethsemane all the humanity that He wanted to assume as the Second Divine Person of the Holy Trinity emerges. From the Incarnation onwards, we could say, divinity has clothed itself with humanity.An example is the mosaic of the apse of the Cefalù Basilica (Sicily - Italy), in which the Pantocrator manifests his royalty and solemn humanity in a unique beauty. To help understand this wonderful work of art, there is an inscription that runs along the arch that delimits the apse: "FACTUS HOMO FACTOR HOMINIS FACTIQUE REDEMPTOR - IUDICO CORPOREUS CORPORA CORDA DEUS", whose translation is: "Made man the creator and redeemer of the created man, I judge as corporeal the bodies, as God the hearts."Art becomes theology and theology into beauty that speaks! It seems to me important to contemplate, with this light, the Lord HERE in Gethsemane, with the purpose of further raising awareness of the Mystery of salvation that the Lord manifested HERE ... "Enter" into our humanity to the bottom, know bitterness, tiredness , the struggle, the sadness, the abandonment ... but also the immense love for the Father, in a delivery that illuminates each offering, both hidden and striking. It is the Mystery of Redemption, which still continues in global history and in our personal life, as an event of salvation that is offered, even to the man who apparently does not seem to be interested in either God or others or, worse yet, trample on his neighbor, moving against, with winds of war, even in the name of God!
We pray, we ask forgiveness, we intercede, we thank, in the desire of the Lord: "Stay here, watch and pray ..." (Mt 26:38).
