This year, the celebrations that accompanied the solemnity of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus at Gethsemane began with the opening of the jubilee of the centenary of the building of the Basilica of the Nations. This place of worship stands on the slope of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and is the place that evokes the agony and arrest of Jesus before his Passion. Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Hoy Land, presided the solemn mass on the […]
Fr. Giorgio Vigna defines them “essential tools”, which can be used by everyone who works for the care and beauty of the Creation. This is how the head of the GPIC (Justice Peace and Integrity of the Creation) Commission for the Custody of the Holy Land introduces the bibliography he has drawn up and which can now be downloaded here. From Franciscan writings to sources of the Holy See or encyclicals, the bibiliography collects the documents necessary for formation and […]
On 26 January 2024, the new seat of the Apostolic Nunciature on Cyprus was inaugurated, in the presence of Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, substitute of the Secretary of State, Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, Apostolic Nuncio in Jordan and Cyprus, Mons. Mauro Lalli, Chargé d’Affaires for Cyprus, fr. Bruno Varriano, Patriarchal Vicar, and numerous religious and civil authorities of the island. The ceremony was also attended by the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton. The Apostolic Nunciature in […]
