Deciding to embark on a radical and irreversible path of life is never easy, as are listening to and recognizing your vocation. Fiancés know this before saying “I do” at their wedding, as do the aspiring priests on their path towards ordination. This decision, together with waiting for the big day, was also experienced in Jerusalem by ten Franciscan friars who, on Wednesday 29 June, on the feast of St Peter and St Paul, in the church of St Saviour’s Convent, […]
Just a few days before the anniversary of the birth of St John the Baptist, on 21st June the convent of Ein Karem hosted a day of study of the figure of the Saint in collaboration with the local Jewish community. Organized by the Friars of the Convent of St John in the Mountains in collaboration with the Town Council of EinKarem represented by Alon Orion, the event is becoming more successful with each year. The Custos of the Holy Land,Fr. Francesco Patton, introduced the day of lectures by extending his welcome to the Jewish community. The Custosrecalled the 800th anniversary […]
On 12th June, solemn vespers, presided by the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, marked the start of the celebrations in honour of St Anthony of Padua, the patron saint and protector of the Custody, linked to the Franciscans of the Holy Land by a special bond for over 100 years. It was in 1917 that the triduum in honour of the great Portuguese saint was proclaimed, to ask for his intervention against the threat of the expulsion […]
