The traditional peregrinations that the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land and the community of local Christians make every year during Lent resumed on Wednesday 8th March. These are weekly appointments in the places which in Jerusalem most evoke the Passion of Christ. The first part of the Lenten peregrinations took place at the sanctuary of Dominus Flevit, on the Mount of Olives. There, the evangelical episode when Christ, looking at Jerusalem, shed tears for the city and […]
On 15 May, continuing the celebrations of the 800thanniversary of the meeting between St Francis and the SultanAl-Malik Al-Kamil in the Room of Our Lady the Immaculate in the Convent of St Saviour in Jerusalem, a meeting was held which fits into the series of lectures conceived by the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. "Today’s lectures, promoted by the Studium BiblicumFranciscanum and by the Custody of the Holy Land, introduce the official celebration of the Custody which will be held in October,” commented Fr. Narcysz Klimas, lecturer at the Studium and Deputy Archivist of the […]
The shrine of Bethphage, restored in its present-day form in 1954, stands on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives. The crossroads of the three roads that lead to Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethany, it is here that the meeting of Jesus with Martha and Mary before resuscitating Lazarus and the entrance by Jesus into Jerusalem, amid the joy of the disciples and the crowd singing hosannas, are commemorated. Fr. Silvio De La Fuente, Discreet of the Holy Land for […]
