The solemn celebrations of the vigil and of the first Sunday in Lent in the Holy Sepulchre, came to an end through a number of peculiar and unique rites and liturgies that mark the time of preparation for Easter in this special place. As established by the Status Quo, in the night between Saturday and Sunday of Lent, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land animate the first solemn entrance of the Latin Patriarch into the Basilica, […]
The multimedia exhibition entitled "The experience of Resurrection" has at last been inaugurated at the Christian Information Center (CIC) in Jerusalem. After a six-year wait, on Saturday 2 July, the exhibition opened its doors to the public and, in particular, to the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, who cut the inaugural ribbon and blessed the exhibition area. In addition to the Father Custos and the head of the CIC, Fr. Tomasz Dubiel, ofm, a groupof friars, religious. Journalists […]
The Custos of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton, accompanied by Fr. Narcyz Klimas archivist of the Custody, visited Malta on the invitation of Fr. Anthony Chircop, Minister Provincial and Commissary of the Holy Land, on 8-11 May. On Thursday 9 May Fr. Patton gave a talk during the meeting of the Franciscan Family of Malta. He spoke about “Calvary, La Verna and us on the occasion of the 800 years of the stigmatisation of St. Francis”. On Friday 10 May […]
