The Franciscan friars made the first Lenten peregrination to the Franciscan shrine of Dominus Flevit, on the Mount of Olives, on Wednesday 28 February. The “peregrinations” are weekly liturgical appointments which take place in the places of the Holy City where the events linked to the Passion of Jesus are evoked. Christians can thus do a special meditation during Lent through visiting, lingering and praying at exactly the places connected with the pre-Easter memories. The Sanctuary of Dominus Flevit The first […]
The eighth consecutive musical season of the Terra Sancta Organ Festival is to be inaugurated on Tuesday 5 October 2021, with eight concerts until 15 October in Jaffa (Tel Aviv), Nazareth, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, after the preview on 26 September in the church of Emmaus El-Qubeibeh, on the feast-day of the disciples Cleopas and Simeon. The characteristic of the Terra Sancta Organ Festival is to take organ music into the shrines and into the churches where the Custody of the […]
The parish church of St Anthony in Jaffa (Tel Aviv) celebrated its patron saint, St Anthony, on 8 June, the Saturday closest to the actual feast-day. This allowed great participation by all the groups that make up this variegated community: the majority are Filipinos, but there are also Africans, Indians, Latin Americans, Poles and members of the Arabic-and Hebrew-speaking communities. They are above all immigrant workers who, together with their families, meet on Saturdays to celebrate the Day of the […]
