Brother Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, presided over the Solemnity of St. Joseph in Nazareth on Monday, March 20. Numerous pilgrims and local Christians attended the celebration. The Custos, in his homily, referred to the verbs that connect to St. Joseph's life: welcome, cooperate and collaborate. He also described St. Joseph as "a man who gave himself to silence, but also very thoughtful in carrying out what the Lord had indicated to him." Br FRANCESCO PATTON, ofm, Custos […]
Art and liturgy have been closely intertwined since the early years of the Church’s birth. Even if, at certain moments, art history turns to “profane” subjects such as gender, landscape or portraiture, we should not believe that the relationship between the Church and art does not exist. Because the second is necessary for the first, especially in its liturgical dimension. The Church could not live without certain objects that men created with great love and care, aware that their work […]
On the eve of Advent, the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, reflects on this “important time” for the Church in the context of the current conflict in the Holy Land. “The whole of History is going towards the meeting with the Lord,” he says, “which gives meaning to History itself and redeems it, transforms it from the story of human misery into the story of salvation.” Here are the main passages of our conversation. *** What is […]
