“THE LORD JUDGES WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS” (see Rev 19,11)
Peace be with you from the garden of the great consolation of the Lord.
In the last ‘spiritual appointment’ we experienced before the “King of kings” (Rev 19:16), we had set out to be living prayer to the living God ourselves (cf. Rom 12.1) like little Abram who intercede for this confused humanity (see. Jan 18, 24ff).
Faced with vain human gatherings in which man plans remedies driven by personal and unsuccessful interests, let us gather spiritually and go to the feet of the “Leader who rides the white horse, the Faithful and the Truthful, he who judges with justice, let us go with great trust to Him, he is the Word of God and knows our humanity, his cloak is soaked in blood!” (see Rev 19,11-13). It is He who holds the fate of history in his hands, in Him therefore, we can, children as we are, blindly trust, hand over all hope and let the hand of the Risen One to “dry every tear” (see. Rev 7,17). Often the trials and suffering that we experience and that the mass media tell us cloud our soul and the sight of our path towards the “narrow door” (Mt 7.13). The Holy Place in which we find ourselves is the Garden which paradoxically ‘tells’ this closeness and great consolation: the Lord, with his Presence is the Light in the night, has arrived the “Morning Star” (Rev 22,16). We have already stated, Gethsemane is the deepest theological and anthropological geographical point of the Gospel. HERE every man finds himself surprisingly met! The Son of God struggles, he descends into the wound of humanity, so that man can lift up his face towards God and once surrendered, allow himself to be given the new name (see Gen 32.24; Rev 3.12). We too are called, today, to raise our gaze towards Him, like the Most Holy Mary, we are invited to do so even for those who no longer have the strength to do so! We must perceive ourselves as members of a single Body, which is the assembly, the Church! Our anxieties will cease only when we, finite creatures, merge into Infinity. Then the fight will be over, the fear of being lost and alone will cease the pain of our miserable condition. Let us speak to the Lord with the confidence of the children, let us tell our anguish to him who knows the deepest anguish! “...in anguish he prayed more intensely” (Luke 22:44). The Good Shepherd does not fear our delusions because he knows what they are and why they are there. It matters to Him to have us with Him, to hold us close, to prevent us from moving away from Him. Even when we do not recognize him, because the test veils us, he holds us tight in his arms just like the merciful Father (Lk 15, 20).
He is the Jesus of Gethsemane. Who like Him does not understand all anguish but he who has once and for all entered mankind? Let us pray without tiring, let us ask for the intercession of Mary Most Holy, Queen of Peace, so that all war, eternal and interior, ceases.
Good prayer
Be blessed
