This year, the feast-day of the Finding of the True Cross (Inventio Crucis) was postponed by one week to allow the Easter of the Orthodox Churches to take place. The friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated it on 13 and 14 May in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. St Helena and the finding of the Cross St Helena’s Chapel, the heart of the celebrations, is one of the lowest points in the Holy Sepulchre, […]
"Jerusalem" was the theme of the 46th Biblical-theological refresher course held April 11-14 in the "Immaculata" hall of St. Savior's Convent. The theme was presented and studied in depth by lecturers from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, and achieved the highest number of participants ever. Br ROSARIO PIERRI, ofm Dean Studium Biblicum Franciscanum We exceeded 150 attendees; we have never reached such a number. And the conferences are enriching us because the reflection on Jerusalem is central, because from Jerusalem the […]
In the afternoon of 7 October, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land gathered in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem to pray the Rosary together and ask God for the gift of peace in the Holy Land and in the world, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Other initiatives were held in the various communities. The Rosary at St Saviour’s The prayer at St Saviour’s was presided over by the Custos, Fra Francesco Patton. For the occasion, an […]
From 7th to 11th August 2019, the historic city of Cholula en Puebla (Mexico) hosted the 11th Congress of the Commissaries of the Holy Land of Latin America, a meeting which is held every two years in the presence of the Custos of the Holy Land. The delegate for the Commissaries and the Bursar of the Custody. The meeting, which is held in a different country of Latin America each time, has the objective of reflecting on the work of […]
