On Wednesday 13th March, the third Franciscan peregrination of Lent took place at the Church of the Flagellation. The “peregrinations” are weekly liturgical appointments that take place in the places of the Holy City where the events linked to the Passion of Jesus took place. After the peregrinations to the Dominus Flevit and the Basilica of Gethsemane, the Franciscan community gathered in this Shrine at the start of the Via Dolorosa, where tradition has it that two episodes in the Passion of […]
The Ayyar Festival of the Magnificat Institute, an annual appointment organized to promote the school of music of the Custody of the Holy Land, is currently under way in Jerusalem. Within the complex of St Saviour, there is a conservatoire that has over two hundred students of every age and level and, above all, of every nationality, religion and ethnic group. It is thus a highly significant experiment of integration which aims to encourage co-existence and dialogue through the language […]
The Triduum for the feast-day of St Anthony has begun today, Sunday 9 June and will be celebrated by the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land with great solemnity on 13 June. Fra Luca Di Pasquale, a friar minor from the Seraphic Province of Assisi who discussed his degree at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem only a few days ago, was asked to preach on the feast-day. St Anthony, patron saint of the Custody of the Holy […]
