Generally celebrated on 25th March, this year the solemnity of the Annunciation has been moved to 7th and 8th April. The community of Franciscan friars gathered together with the local community in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, where the place and the memory of the meeting between the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary (Luke 1, 26.38) and the Incarnation of the Word are enshrined. Here the Word became flesh The Judaic-Christian accounts, the narrations in the gospels, […]
On Monday 7th November, the exhibition “Witness of the resurrection” organized by the CRELEB (Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca) of the Università Cattolica and by Pro Terra Sancta was inaugurated as part of the “Libri Ponti di Pace” [Books as Bridges of Peace] project, conceived by Edoardo Barbieri, Full Professor of History of the Book and of Bibliology at the Università Cattolica in Milan. The aim of the event is to offer the general public a journey in […]
With the beginning of September, some 12,000 youn00gsters of the Terra Sancta School of the Custody of the Holy Land began the new school year. A message of peace comes for them and from them. “Our mission is to educate for peace. Our schools are laboratories of peace,” said Fra Ibrahim Faltas, the Custody Vicar and director of all the 18 schools of the Custody. Frpm the very first day and every day, the school activities begin with Christians and […]
Your Excellency, The Lenten journey invites us to return to the places and events that changed the course of human history and the personal existence of each one of us: they are the places and events that transmit the living memory of all that the incarnate Son of God said, did and suffered for our redemption. The centre of the entire liturgical year is Holy Week, which begins at Bethphage, with the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem. We follow Him […]
