As every year, forty days after Easter, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus to heaven on the Mount of Olives. The episode is taken from the Acts of the Apostles (1, 1-12) which narrates that the Lord, after having announced to them the coming of the Holy Spirit, and therefore Pentecost, ascends to the sky, “taking him from their sight.” The celebrations opened on Wednesday 17th May, with the […]
The Magnificat Institute of Music of Jerusalem, in spite of all the difficulties, officially ended the academic year in Friday 17th July with a concert that wsa live streamed on the school’s Facebook page. Despite all the difficulties due to the measures that the State of Israel has implemented to fight the global pandemic, the Institute, founded in Jerusalem in 1995 and linked to the "Arrigo Pedrollo" Conservatory in Vicenza (Italy), has continued to prove itself a centre of excellence […]
After many years of work, the new edition of the 53 liturgical booklets for the prayers of the Franciscan community of the Holy Sepulchre has been completed. They are all available and free for download in the section of the Liturgy (Resources for the Liturgy at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre) on the website of the Custody. The President of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, fra Stéphane Milovitch completed the long operation of revising and updating the sung liturgies. […]
