This year, in addition to the solemnity of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, celebrated on 6 August on Mount Tabor, there is an important celebration for the inauguration of the Jubilee of the centenary of the Basilica, completed in 1924 by the architect Antonio Barluzzi on the site of the Benedictine monastery from the time of the Crusades. The special anniversary, which coincides with that of the Basilica of the Nations on the slopes of the Mount of Olives in […]
Fr. Giorgio Vigna defines them “essential tools”, which can be used by everyone who works for the care and beauty of the Creation. This is how the head of the GPIC (Justice Peace and Integrity of the Creation) Commission for the Custody of the Holy Land introduces the bibliography he has drawn up and which can now be downloaded here. From Franciscan writings to sources of the Holy See or encyclicals, the bibiliography collects the documents necessary for formation and […]
In two weeks' time, on 29 March, Good Friday will be celebrated, the day dedicated to the collection for the Holy Land. In this interview, Fr. Tony Choucry, bursar of the Custody, underlines the necessity of the Holy Land Collection and renews the appeal to the faithful throughout the world to support the sanctuaries of the Holy Places and to keep Christians in the Holy Land. "The Good Friday Collection - says Fr. Tony Choucry - was instituted by the Magisterium […]
