The radicalism of the love of God that the Church celebrated at Christmas, contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation of the Verb, appears today with the total gift up to the profusion of the blood of the Protomartyr, Stephen. In the violent contrast between life and death, between the Christmas of Jesus and the martyrdom of Stephen, love emerges victorious: the love of God who gives himself to man, becoming a child to save him; the love of the disciple […]
A native of the Old City of Jerusalem, JamilFriej, 27 years old, is the first student to have completed his studied at the Magnificat Institute. Having obtained a diploma in piano and solfege, Jamil was employed by the administration of the Magnificat Project and Marketing Coordinator and is in charge of relations with the PPAN (Palestinian Performing Art Network). After finishing the exams of harmony and composition, he began to teach children at the school the first courses of solfege, […]
After the destruction of the Constantinian buildings ordered by the caliph al-Hakim (1009),restoration was undertaken at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem of the parts that were still standing by the emperor Constantine Monomachos. This restoration was completed in 1048. After this massive work of renovation, the Anastasis –i.e. the circular area which surrounds the empty tomb of Christ– remained essentially what it had been before, with its peripheral walls and with almost all the colonnade. Until today, a circular gallery has […]
