It was a bitter cold February day—the kind of day that Chicago is famous for, and the kind of day that makes lifelong residents wonder why they haven’t broken down and moved to Miami—when I first ...
(l to r) Samara Galdon-Potter, 8, Arielle Cox, 9, and De'zire Clarke, 7, of Syracuse, have fun with the hose while they water a plot in Gethsemane Garden, in Syracuse last year. Photo by Peter Chen / ...
What does “Gethsemane” mean personally to you? What thoughts and feelings does it evoke in your mind and heart? It was truly a sobering and humbling experience to visit this sacred site recently with ...
For Salim Badawi, a Greek Orthodox Palestinian from the West Bank village of Beit Jalla, the opportunity to help a group of Franciscan priests harvest olives in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount ...
Gethsemane is a winner of the Star Tribune's annual Beautiful Gardens contest, whose guidelines were changed with the onset of the pandemic to be not just about aesthetics but also service. When ...
In 1895, Monsignor George Bornemann, rector of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Reading, purchased a 52-acre farm along Kutztown Road in Muhlenberg Township. It would become the site of Gethsemane ...