Two important Lenten peregrinations took place between the afternoon of 22nd March and the next morning, when, as tradition has it, the whole of the Franciscan community goes to visit the most important sanctuaries linked to the Passion of Jesus, celebrating the Eucharist together and meditating on the Scriptures in the very places commemorating the events that took place there. Flagellation, 22nd March The third peregrination was on Wednesday 22nd March to the Church of the Flagellation. After the Dominus […]
250,000 is the number of photographs that are needed not so much to remember the past with nostalgia, but rather to ensure a future for the books kept on these increasingly technological shelves: these are the more than a thousand ancient volumes that can be found in the General Library of the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem. Fr. Lionel Goh, ofm Director of the General Library - Custody of the Holy Land Here are some of the ancient […]
On Friday 15 December, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land begin the Christmas Novena. In St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem, a short meditation on the topic of humility is offered every evening at 7 p.m. during the celebrations of the Vespers. Humility and fraternity “The common thread running through the meditations is taken from an expression of St Francis which is in the Letter to the Entire Order: ‘Brothers, look at the humility of God.’ This […]
