On the Thursday after the Sunday of the Most Holy Trinity, the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi. This feast inevitably recalls Holy Thursday, when the Eucharist was established. In Jerusalem the celebrations started on the Wednesday with the traditional entrance of the Latin Patriarch in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, followed by vespers and the procession around the edicule of the resurrection. This year the movement […]
On 15 May, continuing the celebrations of the 800thanniversary of the meeting between St Francis and the SultanAl-Malik Al-Kamil in the Room of Our Lady the Immaculate in the Convent of St Saviour in Jerusalem, a meeting was held which fits into the series of lectures conceived by the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. "Today’s lectures, promoted by the Studium BiblicumFranciscanum and by the Custody of the Holy Land, introduce the official celebration of the Custody which will be held in October,” commented Fr. Narcysz Klimas, lecturer at the Studium and Deputy Archivist 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 […]
