The celebration of the memory of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in Jerusalem marks the start of Holy Week. Mass was celebrated on Friday 22 March in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, on Calvary at the altar of Our Lady of Sorrows, which separates the Chapel which is the property of the Greek Orthodox from the Latin Chapel of the Crucifixion. The Mass on Calvary As tradition has it, it was the Vicar of the Custody, Fra Ibrahim […]
We met Fr. Alessandro Coniglio, ofm, recently appointed a Discrete of the Custody, to talk about the last academic year and the new one that will soon be opening at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), of which he is the Secretary and an Adjunct Professor. Fr. Alessandro, can you talk to us about the academic year that has just come to an end at the SBF? How can you take stock of it? The academic year that has ended was […]
On 17 June, the “Moses’ Tent” house of retreat was officially opened in the Mount Nebo Convent. The house was inaugurated by the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, who cut the ribbon together with the Italian Ambassador in Jordan, Luciano Pezzotti, in the presence of other members of the Embassy, don Giovanni Falorni of the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vicar of the Custody Fra Ibrahim Faltas, the guardian of the convent Fra Bernard Thilagarajah and the friars of […]
