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 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 […]
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. […]
