Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you. This month we want to share a text from a hermit who loves this holy place and the Lord. Looking at the city of COMPLETION let us pray that we can fulfill the plan of salvation that God has thought for us all.
“In this Garden, Jesus does not allow darkness and meaninglessness to guide him; He does not abandon himself to instinct (he was suffering from anxiety, fear and loneliness), nor allow himself to be distracted by his fellow countrymen. Instead, he transfigures the darkness by entering into it and reasserting, from the depths of his conscience, the central element of everything he ever loved and desired: the Will of the Father!
This is the Passion of God for mankind, manifested and announced from the very beginning… even when the delicate Light entered into a small and simple house, even when the silence of Nazareth expressed itself in the perfume of the rough, huge pieces of wood, and in the faces of the peasants… and now, in this very Garden, the Good King descends into the mortal exhaustion of his last steps, with breath mixed with sweat and blood, and plunges himself into death, in order to become its antidote. In his royal Lordship, he stoops to take into his arms his sleeping and exhausted children, to bring them home again for the safe-keeping of their life and Salvation. This is the loving Plan of the ancient Covenant of God the Father”.
