The Jesus Garden at Frandonisa

28/09/2023

From farm to table. The Jesus Garden is flourishing! 🙏🏼 💛

25/01/2023

Yellow roses, your request Nina. The rambling yellow roses are blooming in The Jesus Garden at Frandonisa, a wall of friendship with Christ and you went to Christ on the feast day of Saint Paul's conversion. How fitting that you transformed into a spiritual being on this day.

Also today, your daughter Enza visits the Ionian sea and feels your presence. Your last swim was in 1994, 28 years ago, and Enza remembers that on that day, you stayed in the water longer than usual. When she asked you why, you responded by saying, "who knows if I'll ever be back here," and this was your last swim in the Ionian Sea. We thank you for bringing us here every year and giving us the most beautiful childhood and teenage years. We love you and thank you and know we will see you again one day. 💛

25/01/2023

Yellow roses, your request Nina. The rambling yellow roses are blooming in The Jesus Garden at Frandonisa, a wall of friendship with Christ and you went to Christ on the feast day of Saint Paul's conversion. How fitting that you transformed into a spiritual being on this day.

Also today, your daughter Enza visits the Ionian sea and feels your presence. Your last swim was in 1994, 28 years ago, and Enza remembers that on that day, you stayed in the water longer than usual. When she asked you why, you responded by saying, "who knows if I'll ever be back here," and this was your last swim in the Ionian Sea. We thank you for bringing us here every year and giving us the most beautiful childhood and teenage years. We love you and thank you and know we will see you again one day. 💛

22/01/2023

Pray for fruition both in harvest and mostly in spirit. Thank you Lord, Amen

15/05/2021

Day Nine:

Saturday, Vigil of Pentecost
Thou, on those who evermore Thee confess and Thee Adore, in Thy sevenfold gift, Descend; Give Them Comfort when they die; Give them Life with Thee on high; Give them joys which never end. Amen.

The Fruits of the Holy Spirit

The gifts of the Holy Spirit perfect the supernatural virtues by enabling us to practice them with greater docility to divine inspiration. As we grow in the knowledge and love of God under the direction of the Holy Spirit, our service becomes more sincere and generous, the practice of virtue more perfect. Such acts of virtue leave the heart filled with joy and consolation and are known as Fruits of the Holy Spirit. These Fruits in turn render the practice of virtue more attractive and become a powerful incentive for still greater efforts in the service of God, to serve Whom is to reign.

Prayer

Come, O Divine Spirit, fill my heart with Thy heavenly fruits, Thy charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, faith, mildness, and temperance, that I may never weary in the service of God, but by continued faithful submission to Thy inspiration may merit to be united eternally with Thee in the love of the Father and the Son. Amen.

Our Father and Hail Mary once
Glory be to the Father SEVEN TIMES

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring keenness of Your justice, and the might of Your love. You are the Strength and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light, and listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds, and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my infirmity, to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace, O Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere, 'Speak Lord for Your servant heareth.' Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

O Lord Jesus Christ, Who, before ascending into heaven, did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit of Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord, with the sign of Your true disciples and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.

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22/01/2021

Slowly but surely The Jesus Garden is taking shape. A future oasis of fruit and nut trees and glorious yellow roses to symbolize the friendship that God wants from all of us. Here you see the beginning and the foundation of the future tower chapel where one can mediate while looking at God's beautiful creation of land and sea. The Ursino Family

Lentamente ma inesorabilmente The Jesus Garden sta prendendo forma. Una futura oasi di alberi da frutto e noci e gloriose rose gialle a simboleggiare l'amicizia che Dio vuole da tutti noi. Qui puoi vedere l'inizio e le fondamenta della futura ca****la della torre dove si può mediare mentre si guarda la bellissima creazione di terra e mare di Dio. La Famiglia Ursino

22/01/2021

Mystical and Enchanting.

Slowly but surely The Jesus Garden is taking shape. A future oasis of fruit and nut trees and glorious yellow roses to symbolize the friendship that God wants from all of us. Here you see the beginning and the foundation of the future tower chapel where one can mediate while looking at God's beautiful creation of land and sea. The Ursino Family

Mystical and Enchanting.

Lentamente ma inesorabilmente The Jesus Garden sta prendendo forma. Una futura oasi di alberi da frutto e noci e gloriose rose gialle a simboleggiare l'amicizia che Dio vuole da tutti noi. Qui puoi vedere l'inizio e le fondamenta della futura ca****la della torre dove si può mediare mentre si guarda la bellissima creazione di terra e mare di Dio. La Famiglia Ursino

15/12/2020

15/12/2020

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Cross Mountain or Mt. Krizevac

15/12/2020

The Jesus Garden is being revived! The crew is hard at work on a mission to make this land flourish again by clearing the debris blocking the massive stone cross and mountain top view of the pristine Ionian Sea, bringing back the fruit trees and the running waters of the calming ravine, restoring an ancient little stone cabin to welcome all those who visit, and planting rambling yellow roses along the cross.

This land means so much to the Ursino Family and is a reminder of Frank and Nina Ursino's legacy and Italian origin prior to their transatlantic voyage with their four children and family to America in search of work.

Nina loved her Calabria, especially her village of Montepaone, and it was truly painful to leave her homeland. She would visit as often as she could, and would spend at least two months every summer visiting Montepaone with her children and grandchildren.

In 1995, Nina battled Leukemia with courage and strength, but more importantly her Faith in God. The night of Nina's passing, she had a dream, a vivid dream of Jesus. She described sitting on a boulder in the land of Medjugorje and saw Jesus walking towards her with the cross of cross mountain (Krizevac)behind Him. Jesus then laid his hand on her forehead. She described him as being beautiful. Jesus said to her, “Nina, I will heal you,” and she said that she felt wonderful. While she was explaining her dream, Nina’s health was quickly declining minute by minute. At that very moment, Nina’s children promised her that they would build a replica of the cross of Medjugorje on their land in Italy for all those passing to see and believe. In 1998, shortly after her husband Frank Ursino’s passing from colon cancer, as promised, the replica of the cross of Medjugorje was erected on the Ursinos’ land of Frandonisa now known as The Jesus Garden at Frandonisa.

Shortly after, one of Nina’s daughters had a dream that Nina came to her telling her how much she loved the cross and said, “you must plant rambling yellow roses all against the wall behind the cross.”

And so, here we are today. Before passing to the other side, Nina was blessed to foresee this plan that would be, a plan that our human minds at the time couldn't have imagined. And now, this meditation garden has come to life and is a reality here on this land in this little town of Montepaone, Calabria.

The Jesus Garden is an ancient small oasis with vegetation and a beautiful stream. In this garden you will see a huge cross structure, a place to meditate, and stand in awe at both the simplicity and enormity of Gods creation, nature. It is our hope that upon entering "The Jesus Garden", one can find nutrition, both for the body and more so for the soul.

A special thanks to the crew below for all their hard work and dedication. Sincerely, The Ursino Family

17/05/2020

Boston priest’s words of wisdom. Church is essential, it is food for your soul. "The churches should all be open because Jesus is the vaccine, He is the healer, He is here, He should not be quarantined, He wants to feed His people." "The body is going to die but the soul is going to move on."

05/04/2020

Boston priest’s powerful Palm Sunday message during COVID-19 pandemic!

keep a distance, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, wear a mask, vaccines, medications, “Where’s God, Where’s God, we don’t turn to God.” “God is stronger than any virus.”