On the afternoon of Holy Thursday, in Jerusalem, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated Mass in Coena Domini in the Upper Room: "We are gathered together to celebrate the Lord's Supper in the very place where Jesus instituted the celebration of the Eucharist" - began the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, who presided over the liturgy (full text here) at which Msgr. Adolfo Tito Yllana, Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and apostolic delegate for Jerusalem […]
The interreligious project that brings together young Christians, Muslims and Jews in a summer camp characterized by mutual knowledge and overcoming barriers of identity through art, music and performance, was held again this year. This is the aim of the “Knüpwerk" project, now in its second year. The term "knüpwerk" means precisely entwining and embroidery, referring to fabrics woven with different and multicoloured threads, representing different cultures and identities. The experience of this year, which took place in Germany, brought […]
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 […]
The celebrations dedicated to the eight hundredth anniversary of the meeting between St Francis of Assisi and the Sultan Al-Malik Al-Kamel, organized in Damietta and Cairo by the Franciscans of the Egyptian Province “The Holy Family” came to an end on Sunday 3rd March. The Egyptian setting directly evokes the meeting that took place 800 years ago between the Saint and the Sultan and which, even today, speaks to all those who have made dialogue and coexistence their everyday life. […]
