The Basilica of the Agony, or “of the Nations”, which this year celebrates the Centenary of its foundation in 1924, hosted the second peregrination of Lent, on Wednesday 6th March, in a climate of profound reflection and prayer. Gradually entering the mystery of Easter, the friars, accompanied by a group of faithful, remembered perhaps the darkest moment in the public life of Jesus: the agony and the prayer in the orchard of the Mount of Olives. The Basilica of Gethsemane This event, which […]
The seventh SOL festival (Semaine de l’Orgue au Liban – Lebanese Pipe Organ Week), coproduced by Notre Dame University School of Music and the Terra Sancta organ Festival, organized by the Custody of the Holy Land, was held in Lebanon from 26 April to 1 May. The SOL Festival is the only one in Lebanon dedicated to organ music and the only festival tat over the years has expanded nationwide: this year there were concerts in Beirut, Zouk Mosbeh, Ajaltoun […]
On 1st June, at St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem, the Custos of the Holy Land Fra Francesco Patton presided over the Holy Mass during which the Ministries of Acolyte and Reader were conferred on twenty-six friars from different parts of the world. “These ministries,” the Custos said in his homily (you can find the full text here) addressing the friars, “are linked to a vocational path (the one you are following as friars minor) and to a call to service […]
