The fourth peregrination of Lent in the Holy Land started from Bethany, the village of Martha, Mary and Lazarus, standing behind the Mount of Olives, to continue towards the chapel of the Ascension and the church of the Pater Noster, on the same mount on the other side of the Wall of Separation. On Thursday 31 March, after the Holy Mass presided by Fr. Eleazar Wrónski at 6.30 a.m. at the tomb of Lazarus, another celebration was held at 7.30 a.m. attended […]
A few days ago, the Palestinian committee restoring the Basilica of the Nativity of Bethlehem announced they had found a “baptismal font”. The discovery took place during the works that have been going on for more than five years, carried out by the Italian firm of Piacenti S.p.a. The archaeologist Elisa Frosi of the Piacenti team described the operations and the phases of the work as follows: “In a restoration project, we always start with a historical study of the […]
There is a very precise moment in history when a young girl’s “yes” changed the course of events. It is the evangelist Luke (Luke 1, 26-38) who tells us that the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, to visit a virgin called Mary. Mary is the origin of the new alliance, the woman thanks to whose freedom God was able to enter history and become flesh. The ancient Greeks had two ways to […]
