The solemn celebrations of the vigil and of the first Sunday in Lent in the Holy Sepulchre, came to an end through a number of peculiar and unique rites and liturgies that mark the time of preparation for Easter in this special place. As established by the Status Quo, in the night between Saturday and Sunday of Lent, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land animate the first solemn entrance of the Latin Patriarch into the Basilica, […]
For the first time, the writings of St Francis, translated into Arabic, become sacred songs for the liturgy and prayer. The project is the result of an idea of two Franciscans, students of theology from Syria, Fr. George and Fr. Johnny Jallouf, and has been developed thanks to the support of the Custody of the Holy Land. Today nine musical pieces with lyrics in Arabic and original music have been published in the collection called “Rabi wa Elahi” and can […]
The Franciscan community of Jerusalem met on Monday 13 May at the Auditorium of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception at St Saviour’s Convent in Jerusalem to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (the live broadcast of the event, curated by the CMC, can be found here) through the accounts and the words of academics and illustrious ex-students. “There could not have been a happier date on which to celebrate this anniversary than […]
