On Friday 7th April, Calvary became the centre of the world: the Church of Jerusalem remembered the last act of Jesus’ Passion in the place of his crucifixion, on the rocky mount now incorporated into the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Mons. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, presided the celebration of the “Passion of the Lord”, guiding the faithful in prayer and inviting the religious, the pilgrims and the local Christians to contemplate the wood of […]
GEORGE HLEIS "I finished studying psychology last year at the Hebrew University... right there on the Mount of Olives." GEORGE HLEIS "My name is George, I'm 23 years old, I live in the Christian quarter of the Old Town, I'm a Catholic Christian." The objective is clear: to allow local Christians to study in their own land, to prevent them from deciding to move abroad to study and then, possibly, to live. Among the many ways in which the Custody […]
The old year comes to an end and the new one opens in the Holy Land marked by reflection, thanksgiving and prayer: the whole of the Franciscan community in Jerusalem, together with many local religious and faithful, came together around these moments on 31st December and 1st January. In the celebrations there was a strong invocation for peace and the desire to entrust again everything to heaven was palpable, in the enormous suffering that has overwhelmed and has continued to […]
