The Franciscan friars made the first Lenten peregrination to the Franciscan shrine of Dominus Flevit, on the Mount of Olives, on Wednesday 28 February. The “peregrinations” are weekly liturgical appointments which take place in the places of the Holy City where the events linked to the Passion of Jesus are evoked. Christians can thus do a special meditation during Lent through visiting, lingering and praying at exactly the places connected with the pre-Easter memories. The Sanctuary of Dominus Flevit The first […]
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 Pope has given the green light for the canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus ”, eight Friars Minor and three Maronite laymen, killed “out of hatred of the faith” in Damascus, in the night between 9 and 10 July 1860. They were the Blessed Manuel Ruiz and his 7 companions of the Order of Friars Minor, and the brothers Francis, Abdel Mooti and Raphael Massabki, lay faithful. The announcement The announcement was made by the Vatican on 23 May. It […]
