The Hallelujah resonated in Jerusalem in the early hours of the morning of Saturday 30 March: it is the peculiarity of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, where the Easter Vigil is anticipated for requirements linked to the Status quo, that disciplines the life of the different Christian communities of the Basilica. This is why the vigil in Jerusalem is considered the mother of all vigils. The Solemn Mass was presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem H.E. Cardinal Pierbattista […]
“What readers are holding in their hands is a book that does justice to Father Frédéric’s love for the Word of God and also his ability to transmit it in a language of today.” The words of fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, perfectly summarize the value of the new contribution that the Libreria Editrice Vaticana dedicates to fr. Frédéric Manns, friar minor, one of the most important scholars of the 20th century on the relationship between Judaism […]
Manuel Ruiz López, superior of the convent of Damascus, was born in 1804 in San Martín de las Ollas, Burgos, Spain. He entered the Friars Minor in 1825 and was ordained a priest in 1830. On 20 July 1831, Fra Manuel set sail with his companions from the port of Cádiz for the Holy Land, landing in Jaffa on 3 August of the same year. Father Carmelo Bolta of Valencia, his future companion in martyrdom, was also a member of […]
The Franciscan Fr. Larry Dunham, OFM, guardian, and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., invested a new member into its 103-year-old lay order, the Knights of Mount St. Sepulchre. Chris Yeazl, who grew up outside of Baltimore, Maryland, had recently completed a six-month “novitiate” program, a requirement for entrance into the order. In over 100 years of continuous service, the mission of the Knights of Mount Saint Sepulchre has never wavered: “to guide the […]
