Just as for the whole of the Church, Lent has begun in the Holy Land as well and we are about to live through this time of grace which precedes Easter. On 22nd February, Ash Wednesday, Franciscans, pilgrims and local Christians gathered around Christ’s empty tomb, in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, to celebrate the start of Lent, a period of fasting, penitence and prayer. At the celebration at 6.30 in the morning, presided by fr. Stéphane […]
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 […]
“A holy place dedicated exclusively to prayer” can be read on the plaque next to the gate that opens into the Romitaggio of Gethsemane, in Jerusalem. We are at the beginning of the ascent of the Mount of Olives. Just a little above the Basilica of the Agony, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land have reserved a part of the Olive Grove for prayer in solitude, like that of Jesus on the night of Holy Thursday. More […]
