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 […]
There was a time last century when the spread of the Gospel started to be delivered through the cinema. Starting from after the war, several missionary groups decided to invest in the seventh art to promote their activities and reach more and more people. Keeping up with modernity and with the constant progress of technology is a challenge that the Church started to set itself several decades ago, especially concerning the state of the art in the means of communication: […]
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 […]
