Holy Thursday in Jerusalem is full of liturgies that take place throughout the day. It marks the beginning of the Paschal Triduum, when the events of Christ’s Easter Mystery are celebrated: the establishment of the ministerial priesthood, of the commandment of brotherly love and, lastly, of the Passion. Liturgies of Holy Thursday at the Holy Sepulchre On Thursday morning, the liturgies of the In Cena Domini Mass and of the Chrism Mass, presided by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Mons […]
The new digital exhibition entitled "The Printer’s Small Library. Books, Reference Works, and Handbooks on the Shelf of the Franciscan Printing Press in Jerusalem" will be online on the site of the Custodial Library from19th May 2020. Curated byPierfilippoSaviotti, the exhibition is part of the initiatives of the "Books Bridges of Peace” project of the C.R.E.L.E.B. (European Research Centre for the Book, Publishing, and Libraries) and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan (Italy), in collaboration with the NGO Pro Terra Sancta and […]
At the end of the Christmas period, there is still time to celebrate a birthday: the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), the school of Holy Scripture and biblical archaeology of the Custody of the Holy Land, is one hundred years old. Some lecturers and students from the Studium Biblicum and some Franciscan friars from the convent of the Flagellation, where the Studium is based, celebrated this birthday with a moment of remembrance and prayer on the evening on 7 January, the same […]