Just as for the whole of the Church, Lent has begun in the Holy Land as well and we are about to live through this time of grace which precedes Easter. On 22nd February, Ash Wednesday, Franciscans, pilgrims and local Christians gathered around Christ’s empty tomb, in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, to celebrate the start of Lent, a period of fasting, penitence and prayer. At the celebration at 6.30 in the morning, presided by fr. Stéphane […]
The 45th Biblical-Theological Refresher Course (CABT) came to an end in Jerusalem on Friday22 April, after four intense days. The Course, supported by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), started on Tuesday 19 April in the Immaculate Auditorium of St Saviour’s Covent and lasted four days, with lectures in the morning and guided visits in the afternoon. It came to an end on Friday with an excursion to the Negev desert. The CABT was inaugurated in the 1970s on the initiative […]
The day after Christmas, in the early morning, the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, and some young friars visited the elderly and ill friars in the infirmary on the top floor of St Saviour’s convent in Jerusalem, and together they celebrated Mass in the room opposite the chapel. Christian life from Christmas to Easter The intimate ceremony – about fifty people in all - was very well prepared and attended. The white vestments of Christmas were replaced by the […]
