The small church of St Peter in Tiberias, a few yards away from the Lake of the same name, along the banks of which Jesus called and taught his disciples, was filled with faithful on Saturday 24 February for the solemn celebration of the Chair of St Peter. The Chair With this feast-day, the Church remembers the particular “mission as master and shepherd conferred by Christ on Peter, appointed by him, in his person and his successors, as the principle […]
On 17 September, the Church and the Franciscan world celebrate the feast of the Impression of the Stigmata of St Francis. "An Exaggeratedly Great Love" is the theme of the Dialogue with Brother Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, on the Stigmata of St Francis. Br FRANCESCO PATTON, OFM Custos of the Holy Land "The Stigmata are the wounds of Jesus. St Francis received them on the Mount of La Verna.The biographers say that it was on the approach […]
The Triduum for the feast-day of St Anthony has begun today, Sunday 9 June and will be celebrated by the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land with great solemnity on 13 June. Fra Luca Di Pasquale, a friar minor from the Seraphic Province of Assisi who discussed his degree at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem only a few days ago, was asked to preach on the feast-day. St Anthony, patron saint of the Custody of the Holy […]
