The Christmas festivities have come to an end with the Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, celebrated on Sunday 7 November on the banks of the River Jordan. With the end of the celebrations of the Epiphany yesterday in Bethlehem, the Franciscan community gathered, with other religious and some parish groups, near the site known by the Arabic name of “Qasr al-Yahud”, or “citadel of the Jews”, probably in memory of when the Israelites crossed the river to arrive […]
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 […]
On Tuesday 7 May, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, led by the Vicar of the Custody Fra Ibrahim Faltas, made the traditional visits to the Patriarchs of the Orthodox Churches which celebrated Easter two days ago, on 5 May, following the Julian calendar. These events are invaluable occasions for the representatives of the Churches to meet and exchange greetings in a climate of fraternity which makes the bonds of affection between the different Christian communities in […]
