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    “Get in-Get out” in Him

    Dear friends of the Holy Hour, peace be with you! 

    In these days I have been attracted by this image that the Lord has given us by talking about himself: He is the “good Shepherd” and has a special relationship with the sheep that calls each one by its name (!) He is well known by the keeper of the sheepfold and the sheep recognize Him, his voice! A beautiful image, deep and filial... Soon after, to the misunderstanding of his listeners, He will say: I am the Gate of the sheep (Jn 10:7); if anyone enters through me, he will be saved, he will enter and go out, and he will find pasture (Jn 10:9). Together with you I ask myself: what does it mean to enter and exit this door?
    If He reveals “Himself as the “Door" means that it allows us to enter and go out and find food, and in the end to be saved! We without Him cannot exit "from the condition of sin in which we find ourselves, without His opening the Door of the Kingdom we are inevitably locked out, alone… lost! In fact, Psalm 49 well describes that the existence of a man without God is at the mercy of an unjust shepherd. He leads him only to death: (As sheep are sent to hell, death will be their shepherd Ps 49 (48) v. 15).
    All this illuminates the Holy Place in which we are and gives depth to the “Way, Truth and Life”, which are in Him, the Good Shepherd. (Jn 14:6). In the Christian Tradition the attribute “good” has always been referred to the One who offered his life (Jn 10,11) from his Incarnation until he was the Lamb slain on the Cross (Redemption). Let’s contemplate this power of love, let’s love Love strongly. Let’s remain in Him, let’s “travel back and forth" his path, his way of loving, just as we are able… let us repair “the Love not loved", Saint Francis of Assisi would say. May our prayer and unceasing request of the gift of the Holy Spirit help us to taste the mystery of love which united us to Him with His seal, the Blood of the Man-God (Ct 8,6-7).

    Hora Sancta

    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.

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