Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his Peace!
In this usual wish that we make to you, we ourselves desire peace and we ask it of the Lord insistently, even when 'contrary winds'
seem to want to imply with greater...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you!
We have just crossed the threshold of the New Year, and it seems right to us to hope that it will be a time in which the Lord can be
a centre and a source of hope for all of us believers...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you!We have just entered the liturgical season of Advent, a time in which the Lord gives us so many opportunities to discover his boundless love and his Presence in our lives and in our history....
Dear friends of
Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his peace! This month I wish
to share with you a light that the Lord has 'given' to me and that I still
perceive full of love, and when I think about it, it still moves me....
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his peace.For us Franciscan friars, the beginning of October opens with the solemnity of Saint Francis of Assisi (4 October). We always perceive an invitation to be bearers of peace...
Peace to you, dear friends of the Garden loved by the Lord.In this month we wish to pray with you to the Lord to grow in the gaze of faith that he HERE has revealed to us. We are all, in most cases, inclined to evaluate, observe, decide...
May the Lord grant you his peace, dear friends of Gethsemane.In this month that has just begun, we wish to share with you two lights in the hope that they may help us to love Jesus "the Unloved Love" (Saint Francis).The first: looking...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord grant you his peace.From this holy place a special prayer is raised on July 1 to the Father for the gift of the Most Precious Blood of his Son, our Saviour. A unique solemnity, which is celebrated...
Dear friends of the Garden of the Lord, peace to you.In these days of waiting for the gift of the Holy Spirit, from this mystical Garden, we contemplate with wonder the mystery of the Redemption that is manifested in Ascension and...
Peace to you all from the Garden loved by the Lord.We are celebrating the Passover of the Lord, "the Lord is with us to the close of the age" (cf. Mt 28:20). Despite this, we cannot hide the evident presence of evil that brings many...
HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS, BUT MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS (Mk 13,31) Peace to you all from Jerusalem.Our Lenten journey is approaching the great Paschal Mystery that has been accomplished in this very...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace to you! We are living dramatic days for what is happening between Russia and Ukraine, and despite a certain apprehension and concern we are invited not to let ourselves be discouraged...
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.
