Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord give you his peace. In this time of the new year we are living with hope and expectation the decline of the pandemic. Many of us, rightly, manifest the desire to want to return ‘to...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you! In this Christmas season and at the beginning of the new year we have had and will have the great gift of listening to and meditating on the mystery of the Incarnation: God becomes...
Dear friends, peace be with you from the Garden of Gethsemane! We have already entered the strong time, the Advent. It is a very special time in which we are called to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation, in the splendour...
Dear friends, peace be with you all from Jerusalem! In these days the Lord through his Word invites us to enter the narrow gate (Lk 13:24). In another context, He will say "I am the door..." (Jn 10:7-9). References in the holy...
Peace to you all from the Garden loved by the Lord! In these days, the Lord has invited us many times to convert and become like children in order to enter the kingdom of heaven (Mt 18, 3-6). Even the various liturgical celebrations...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you from Jerusalem! On this first Thursday of September, we invite you to make yourselves small and be unceasing prayer for humanity that is hurt by injustice, by natural calamities and...
Peace to you from Jerusalem, dear friends of Gethsemane! The Word of God of these days has illuminated once again the Mystery of Gethsemane, especially on the feast of St Mary Magdalene.The Gospel tells us how this Disciple anxiously...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you from Jerusalem! In these days we are welcoming the great gift of the Word of God, which always tells us the richness of the encounter. Sometimes it is God who seeks man and visits...
Dear friends, peace
be with you from Jerusalem, from Gethsemane! It is not so easy
to write this usual greeting! We all know that the 'peace' we invoke from
Jerusalem over the past month has been strongly threatened by winds...
Dear friends, peace be with you from Jerusalem, from Gethsemane! The Easter season is a strong time in which we have the opportunity to deepen the great Mystery of the Resurrection. It should not be understood only by reason,...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, peace be with you from Jerusalem! In this week we "enter" the Passion-death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the mystery of our Redemption, it is the heart of our faith, it is the...
Dear friends of Gethsemane, may the Lord give you his peace! In this Lenten season we are invited by the Lord to intensify our prayer in view of Easter, the summit of our Faith. The first Thursday of April will in fact be Holy...
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.
