A Jubilee event was held for the religious in the Holy Land on 1 February in Bethlehem, with the solemn celebration of the First Vespers of the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord at the Temple, the Day of Consecrated Life. The prayer was presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in St Catherine’s church, the Latin part of the Basilica of the Nativity. Jubilee crosses in the Holy Land On this occasion, the Jubilee […]
On the morning of 12 February, the altar from the Latin chapel of Calvary returned to the Holy Sepulchre. Last April it had been removed and, together with other works belonging to the Terra Sancta Museum of Jerusalem, it had gone to Florence to be restored and exhibited at the “Marino Marini” Museum . The altar, donated in 1578 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando de’ Medici, to the Custody of the Holy Land, has been restored to its […]
On the morning of Saturday 8 February, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, presided over the Mass in the “Crusader Chapel” of the Holy Sepulchre, at the end of the restoration. During the celebration, he blessed the new altar and the throne. He then also blessed the new wing of the Franciscan convent, at the end of the restoration work. “With the bull Gratias agimus of 21 November 1342. Pope Clement VI asked us three things, the […]
The first Congress of commissaries of the Holy Land of Asia was held from 7 to 12 February in Jakarta and Bali (Indonesia) on the topic of “Formation and mission in communion.” The Custos’ delegate for the Commissaries of the Holy Land, Fra Silvio De la Fuente was present . Fra Robertus Wowor, commissary of the Holy Land since 2008 for Indonesia, who hosted the meeting, emphasized that for him “the greatest challenge is to make known the Holy Land […]
