The celebrations for the great solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus followed on one another from the afternoon of 8 May ion the small chapel where tradition commemorates the place where Jesus rose to heaven. The event of Ascension concludes the apparitions after Easter of the Risen One: the evangelist Luke situates it as the starting point of the Acts of the Apostles, also considered to be a work by Luke: “When he had said this, as they were looking […]
The exhibition “Italian Visions and Nativity Scenes. Renaissance paintings and ancient marionette theatre”, designed by Chancing Performing Art in collaboration with the Compagnia Carlo Colla & Figli, and sponsored by the Ministry of Italian Culture, the Consulate General of Italy in Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land, opened on 22nd December in the Bethlehem Peace Center, the cultural centre in the square facing the Basilica of the Nativity. This exhibition is the first international event as part of […]
On 3 and 4 October, the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land – together with a large number of faithful - celebrated the feast-day of St Francis of Assisi, their founder. The friars responded to the trails of light of the missiles in the Jerusalem sky with an intense climate of prayer, both during the Triduum of preparation and on the days of the celebration. The dream of fraternity and peace In his homily , during the First […]
The Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, attended the Meeting for friendship among peoples in Rimini, which this year is in its 40th edition, on Monday 19th August. Every year, the traditional summer appointment in the city on the Adriatic, which is taking place from 18th to 24th August, brings together hundreds of thousands of people who, attracted by the topic “Your name was born from what you gazed upon” meet to listen and reflect on subjects of […]
