The communion that Jesus lives with the Father is intimate in his divinity and is not separated from his humanity, even in the darkest moments. We often imagine Jesus, here in Gethsemane, alone, suffering and abandoned: this is a mistake,...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you! The whole Church is living a very intense time where the risen Lord illuminates every circumstance of our life, even those circumstances in which there is hatred and violence.I wish...

Some time ago Italian newspapers gave news of a fact that caused a stir and moved manypeople. It was about a newborn that had been abandoned, wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown into thegarbage can. One person, who heard the child's...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, the Lord will give you his Peace! At the beginning of this special time of Lenten way, I would like to share with you this mosaic thatis found in our Basilica: it represents the kiss that Judas Iscariot...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! We invite you to come here with us with your imagination, to be able to contemplate in these days the beauty of nature, admire and feel the sweet perfume of the almond tree in bloom. Along...

Dear friends of Gethsemane Peace to you! We have just begun the new year and perhaps we still have in our mind and in our heart the manger of Bethlehem that welcomed the Lord who became man. Often in these Christmas days I found...

The living way that the Lord is giving us by listening to his Word, and now for a few days the waiting for his Advent, have led me many times to consider this Holy Place. But I must say that the mystery of God's way of being and acting...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! The Gospel that we heard last Sunday continues to accompany me, especially the delicacy that Jesus has towards Bartimaeus, the blind man of Jericho, surprises me. Jesus has again seduced...

Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you peace! This first Thursday of the month falls on a special occasion for us Franciscans: it is the day of our beloved Father Saint Francis. The liturgical coincidence of this little-great...

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...

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...

his month I would like to share a story taken from the sermons of St. Anthony of Padua. When I heard it (at the Saint's party, on June 13th), I was moved. Later I understood the reason: it is a Sermon on Holy Thursday, in which Saint...