Cari amici del Getsemani pace a voi! Questi giorni nel tempo
03 maggio 2018
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! These days of the Easter season are illuminated from the Promise of Jesus, from the strength of his Word and the communion with the Father and with us. The peace and grace that the Lord gives us with his Presence are truly great, immense and surprising gifts.Sometimes everything seems like a dream ... a moment, and a veil of sadness makes my face darken when I look at the suffering and despair of other faces, especially of the smallest and innocent, who explicitly express, crying or in silence, with rage or with the pain of abandonment, the most truthful prayer: "Lord, come, asist us, help us! Only you are our salvation”.In those moments I would like to be the voice of a prayer that comes back to me like a healing balm ... I would like to be like a petal of red rose thrown HERE on the Rock, and be associated with the drops of the Precious Blood of Our Lord. “Here now I receive you, Blood of my Jesus,and sprinkle you over the Church, over the world, over sinners, over purgatory. Help, comfort, purify, ignite, penetrate and fertilize, o Divine Nectar of Life,that indifference and fault do not block your flowing but, on the contrary, to the few who love you, for so many who die without you, rush and pour out on allthis so Divine rain…".
Hora Sancta
We are the sons of St. Francis, and we are THE custodians, according to the will of God, of one of the places that Jesus loved the most: the garden called GETHSEMANE. This is a unique place in the world. It is the place where the Lord manifested his Yes forever by being ready to enter where nobody else had ever entered, where he plunged into darkness, in the final battle against death, in which humanity has always ended up being a loser.