The fifth Lenten station of the liturgical peregrinations, which the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land perform each year to prepare for Easter, was held on Wednesday 29th March in the complex of the Flagellation. Mass was celebrated at the Sanctuary of the Condemnation, the place of the conclusive act of the trial where Jesus was accused in the hours after his arrest is evoked. The episode is narrated, with others, in Chapter 19 of the Gospel according to […]
The annual prolusion for the opening of the academic year of the École biblique and of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), two of the most important Catholic academic institutions in the Holy Land, was held on Friday 15th November, in the Church of St Stephen at the Dominican convent and seat of the École biblique et archéologique française of Jerusalem (EBAF). Each year, in turn, this event is hosted in one of these two venues. The first part of the […]
On Friday 15 December, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land begin the Christmas Novena. In St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem, a short meditation on the topic of humility is offered every evening at 7 p.m. during the celebrations of the Vespers. Humility and fraternity “The common thread running through the meditations is taken from an expression of St Francis which is in the Letter to the Entire Order: ‘Brothers, look at the humility of God.’ This […]
