"And I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of hell shall not prevail against it. To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." With these words Jesus gives Peter authority over the Church, making the apostle the first among the Twelve. In Tiberias, […]
On 15 May, continuing the celebrations of the 800thanniversary of the meeting between St Francis and the SultanAl-Malik Al-Kamil in the Room of Our Lady the Immaculate in the Convent of St Saviour in Jerusalem, a meeting was held which fits into the series of lectures conceived by the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. "Today’s lectures, promoted by the Studium BiblicumFranciscanum and by the Custody of the Holy Land, introduce the official celebration of the Custody which will be held in October,” commented Fr. Narcysz Klimas, lecturer at the Studium and Deputy Archivist of the […]
"Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead" (John 12, 1). This are the opening words of Chapter 12 of the Gospel according to John, which introduces the episode of the unction of Jesus’ feet with perfume of pure nard by his friend Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. The mention at the beginning of “six days before Passover” allows us to remember this episode on the Monday of […]
