On Thursday 6th April, in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Mons. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, opened the solemn liturgies of the Paschal Triduum, with the celebration of the Missa in Coena Domini. The ceremony in the morning is only the first of the several which, until nightfall, punctuate Holy Thursday in Jerusalem, where the facts narrated by the Gospels took place two thousand years ago. This celebration which, according to the rules of the […]
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 […]
The delegations of the Oriental Christian Churches of Jerusalem visited the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, and the friars of the Custody for the traditional exchange of Christmas greetings, two days after Christmas. Most of the Orthodox communities, which follow the Julian calendar, will celebrate Christmas on Saturday 6 January. Christmas from Bethlehem to Greccio The different delegations were welcomed one after the other in the capitular hall of St Saviour’s convent. They were fraternal meetings between […]
