The fifth Lenten season of the liturgical peregrinations of the Custody of the Holy Land took place on Wednesday 20th March at the Shrine of the Condemnation: here, the trial where Jesus was accused in the hours following his arrest in Gethsemane is remembered. The episode is narrated, along with others, in Chapter 19 of the Gospel according to John, which relates the different stages of the trial that led to the condemnation of Christ, by the governor Pontius Pilate. […]
On Friday, 25 Marchand on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation, the opera “Francis and the Sultan” was performed at the UNESCO building in Beirut. Inspired by the meeting between the saint of Assisi and the Sultan Malek al Kamilin Egypt in 1219, the performance was staged last week and had an unprecedented successful reception by the public, with an audience of over 1,500 people. The Annunciation –as Father QuiricoCalellaofm, who conceived and planned the opera underlined, brings […]
The Custody of the Holy Land is celebrating for four of its sons who have become priests (you can read their stories here). On 29 June, the traditional date of ordinations for the Franciscans, in St Saviour’s church, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, laid his hands on Lorenzo Pagani and Mark Vertido Palafox. Two other friars, the twins George and Johnny Jallouf, will receive the priestly ordination on 6 July in Aleppo (Syria), their home town. Friars […]
