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 […]
On Monday 16th November, Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, opened the proceedings of the course of Franciscan Permanent Formation for the guardians of shrines and the sacristans. The course, which will end on 19th November, is attended by numerous Franciscans engaged in this apostolate of the Custody, both in person and remotely: all are at work confidently waiting for the reopening to the faithful and tourists, eight months after the official closure due to the pandemic. The Custos […]
The “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity”, on the topic “You will love the Lord your God… and your neighbour as yourself” (Luke 10,27) was held in the Holy Land from 20 to 28. These words echo like a real challenge in the present-day context of the Holy Land, shaken by war for four months now. In Jerusalem, every day, for nine days, the Gospel according to Luke which recounts the parable of the Good Samaritan, resounded in nine different […]
