This month our prayer is enriched by the Lenten way that will lead us to the resplendent Light of the Passover of Our Lord Jesus Christ. How much, how much he loves us!
I would like to share with you an intention for our prayer during this time: to look at the darkness with the Light (the gaze) of the Lord. Firstly, we can perceive this: if we listen well to the Word and the holy liturgy, there are many references to the Light, to the radiance of the Lord, to his glory, that will have fulfillment here in Jerusalem. It could be said that these places that we contemplate daily from this garden have the deposit of the “Light” of fulfillment … the Cenacle, HERE, Gethsemane, the Gallicantu, the Flagellation, the Via Crucis, the Calvary and the Resurrection are like “windows” of the grace through which we still receive the divine Light that Our Lord Jesus Christ, with his passage, has left us in the mistery of the Redemption!
A second observation: it is spoken about the Light of Resurrection… but the Lord passes ‘sinking’ in the dark… right HERE, in Gethsemane, He enters each man’s night, past, present and future… enters in the history once and for all and make it sacred! Let us contemplate the places of the fulfillment of his hour… in which He himself, the Lord, once again looks at us with tenderness and intensity… telling us: “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death, stay here with me! Keep watch” (cfr Mk 14,34). Let us pray together to be able to like and welcome in us the mistery of his Passover, the price of our salvation.
