Three days after Christmas, the Custody of the Holy Land remembers the Holy Innocents in the grotto of Bethlehem dedicated to them, with the Eucharistic celebration and the first Vespers presided over by the Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, fr. Ibrahim Faltas. On the solemnity of 28 December, the Church remembers the massacre of the children ordered by King Herod in the attempt to kill Jesus, as narrated in the Gospel according to Matthew (2,1-16), without parallel […]
From 1948 to the 1970s, the Custody of the Holy Land was involved in the production of films, initially for an audience of friends close to the Holy Land, but which were then also used in catechism activities and in the promotion of the Holy Land. The majority of the films were made by semi-professioanal directors, and we could define them “amateur works of a high standard.” They can be considered a milestone in the film category called “useful cinema.” […]
On 22 April, the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, went to Isfiya, on Mount Carmel, invited by the youngsters of the “Marian Movement in the Holy Land, an association which started in the Maronite Church. Here, he met the young people and celebrated Mass in the church dedicated to St Charbel Makhluf, a Lebanese monk and one of the best known saints in the Maronite Church. The date is significant: on the 22nd of each month, the […]
