The solemnity of Corpus Christi is the feast-day that celebrates the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and reaffirms the faith of the Catholic Church in the real presence of Jesus in transubstantiation. The celebrations in Jerusalem were presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and started on Wednesday 29 May in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, to conclude with the Solemn Mass on the morning of Thursday […]
The Symposium of the Churches in the Middle East, “Rooted in hope” came to an end in Cyprus on 23rd April 2023. The initiative was organized by the R.O.A.C.O. (Assembly of Organizations for Aid to the Oriental Churches), and supported by the Dicastery of the Oriental Churches to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in the Middle East” signed in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI on the Church in the Middle East on the aspects of […]
The friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, together with friends and faithful, gathered around the family of Shibly Abu Sada for the last farewell to one of the long-term collaborators of the Custody. Shibli was “a gift from the Lord and a special person,”, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, said who on 15 October, presided over his funeral in St James’ church in Beit Hanina (Jerusalem). The Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Cardinal […]
The Congress of Italian-language Commissaries of the Holy Land (the Conference brings together, as well as Italy, some Slav countries such as Poland, Slovenia and Croatia, and Malta) opened this morning in Milan at the Angelicum in Piazza Sant’Angelo, in the presence of the Custos Fr. Francesco Patton. After the presentation of the programme by the Chairman of the Italian Commissaries, Fr. Sergio Galdi, Commissary General of Naples, the Father Custos outlined the framework in which the Congress is taking […]
