Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you.
Our prayer this month would want to pay attention to what the Lord lived here in Gethsemane as God and as Man.
When we think of the Lord here in his anguish we sometimes risk, on the one hand, to diminish the mystery of the redemption that has taken place here, making it a purely human fact.Or, on the contrary, we absolutize the divinity of Jesus by impoverishing the mystery of the Incarnation ... of his feeling the suffering, the abandonment or the fatigue of the struggle against the evil one. These two perspectives in antithesis, if followed, would lead to new heresies that have already been repeated throughout history and Church faced them precisely because they disfigured the Face and the identity of Jesus Christ, our Lord. In fact, it is precisely in our Creed that we profess these two realities united in one person: Jesus Christ, true God, true Man. Saint Maximus the Confessor, in this sense, is enlightening. He says: "What it is manifested as a voluntary consent (Jesus FIAT in Gethsemane:" let your will be done, not mine”) is the fact that our salvation is wanted in a human way by a divine person”.
I hope that this wise synthesis helps us to perceive how much the Lord has loved us ... He has entered into our humanity and has no longer separated. It's as if he repeated to us: "I really loved you ... all the way!"
