On Wednesday 13th March, the third Franciscan peregrination of Lent took place at the Church of the Flagellation. The “peregrinations” are weekly liturgical appointments that take place in the places of the Holy City where the events linked to the Passion of Jesus took place. After the peregrinations to the Dominus Flevit and the Basilica of Gethsemane, the Franciscan community gathered in this Shrine at the start of the Via Dolorosa, where tradition has it that two episodes in the Passion of […]
The meeting between St Francis and the Sultan of Egypt al-Malek al-Kāmel in 1219, and now taken as a precursor model of interreligious dialogue, has become the subject of a new opera produced by the Custody of the Holy Land and performed for the first time in Lebanon in the form of a concert on 6 November 2021, in the church of S Elias in Beirut and on 7 November in Tripoli in the church of St Marouan, in collaboration […]
The tenth Franciscan March in Jordan has ended: the place of arrival was the Shrine of Mount Nebo where, on 16 June one hundred and thirty young people were welcomed by the community of Nebo: Fra Bernard Thilagarajah, guardian of the convent, Fra Ammar Shahin and Fra Ibrahim Pio Haddad. The next day, 17 June, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton and the Vicar Fra Ibrahim Faltas also went to Mount Nebo to greet the youngsters and […]
