The Franciscan friars made the first Lenten peregrination to the Franciscan shrine of Dominus Flevit, on the Mount of Olives, on Wednesday 28 February. The “peregrinations” are weekly liturgical appointments which take place in the places of the Holy City where the events linked to the Passion of Jesus are evoked. Christians can thus do a special meditation during Lent through visiting, lingering and praying at exactly the places connected with the pre-Easter memories. The Sanctuary of Dominus Flevit The first […]
The 45th Biblical-Theological Refresher Course (CABT) came to an end in Jerusalem on Friday22 April, after four intense days. The Course, supported by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), started on Tuesday 19 April in the Immaculate Auditorium of St Saviour’s Covent and lasted four days, with lectures in the morning and guided visits in the afternoon. It came to an end on Friday with an excursion to the Negev desert. The CABT was inaugurated in the 1970s on the initiative […]
The Pope has given the green light for the canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus ”, eight Friars Minor and three Maronite laymen, killed “out of hatred of the faith” in Damascus, in the night between 9 and 10 July 1860. They were the Blessed Manuel Ruiz and his 7 companions of the Order of Friars Minor, and the brothers Francis, Abdel Mooti and Raphael Massabki, lay faithful. The announcement The announcement was made by the Vatican on 23 May. It […]
