FROM GARDEN TO GARDEN
From the garden of Gethsemane, the Lord gives you his peace.
In the light of Resurrection at this time we are called to perceive how the Lord wants to illuminate our daily lives. Together with you in this time, so precious and full of light, I wonder if one life can be enough to understand the mystery of Redemption. We all feel that the Lord is greater than our small thoughts and narrow ideas that we continue to project on him and his way of acting! The phrase of Jesus handed over to Peter in the Upper Room: "What I do now you do not understand, you will understand it later" (cf. Jn 13:7). We are all called to look at our lives in the light of his Passover, what he has done and will do, what he has said and will repeat!
For this month, in addition to inviting you to pray for the Church that lives this important passage, with our prayer we intercede so that the successor of Saint Peter may be chosen according to the heart of God. We invite you not to give too much space to the media manipulations, but to pray insistently, so that the will of God is fulfilled on all of us. I want to share with you two lights that accompany me these days.
Here we are in a 'garden'. Also the holiest place on earth, where the Resurrection took place, before being known as the Holy Sepulchre or Basilica of the Anastasis (resurrection), it was a garden. Even the most recent archaeological excavations confirm this. There is a material, but also spiritual meaning: the garden that the Lord loves to inhabit is our humanity, my person. Each of us is that "place" in which the Son of God wants to inhabit and give life, rise and open wide to the eternal Light! Let him enter! Welcome him!
In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus constantly asks: "Stay here with me" (Mt 26:38,41); in the garden of the Resurrection and in the intimacy of the Upper Room he says powerfully in a completely new way: "Behold, I am with you all days until the end of the world" (Mt 28:20).
Let us contemplate these small and simple lights that come from the Light of the Risen One, we return to his eternal Word. Everything passes, he remains! He knows our weaknesses, our limits, knows that we are in need. We trust in him and invoke the intercession of Mary Most Holy, who in the apparent concealment of the Gospel and in history continues to lead us all to the slain Paschal Lamb, the Son of the Most High (cf. Jn 2:5; 19:28-35). That the Church may always be the reflection of the true Light of the risen Christ.
Be blessed, in the Lord.
