On Good Friday, the day of contemplation of the wooden cross of Christ, the Church of Jerusalem has the task of celebrating and contemplating this mystery in the place where it all happened: the Calvary, inviting religious, pilgrims and local worshippers to enter more intimately into the mystery of the Passion of Christ. To foster this intimate union, there are three celebrations on Friday 29 March: the commemoration of the Passion on Calvary and the Via Crucis, in the morning and the mimesis of the Passion in […]
The multimedia exhibition entitled "The experience of Resurrection" has at last been inaugurated at the Christian Information Center (CIC) in Jerusalem. After a six-year wait, on Saturday 2 July, the exhibition opened its doors to the public and, in particular, to the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, who cut the inaugural ribbon and blessed the exhibition area. In addition to the Father Custos and the head of the CIC, Fr. Tomasz Dubiel, ofm, a groupof friars, religious. Journalists […]
He was one of the oldest of those who found death in St Paul’s convent in Damascus due to the violent attack against the Christians, in the night between 9 and 10 July 1860. Fra Carmelo Bolta Bañuls was 58 years old: the parish priest for the Latins, he taught Arabic to the young missionaries and was in the convent when the Druze persecutors broke in. Together with Fra Manuel Ruiz López and the nine other martyrs, he will be […]
