“The Royal banner forward goes / the mystic Cross refulgent glows.” It is with this ancient liturgical hymn (theVexílla Regis, 6th century) that the procession with which the precious relic of holy wood was carried from Calvary to the chapel of the Apparition of St Mary Magdalene, was concluded, at the end of the solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, on 14 September. The holy mass was presided by Fr. Ibrahim Faltas, at his first official ceremony as Vicar […]
Every year, KolHaMusica, the national radio station of the State of Israel which all the experts and aficionados of classical music in the country listen to, organizes a competition to find the young talents who will be the future big names on the musical scene. Directed by the legendary Professor Alexander Tamir of the Academy of Jerusalem, students from the most important and best known conservatoires in Israel take part in the competition, called “Looking to the future”. Held with […]
The feast-day of St Francis of Assisi was celebrated by the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land with the eternal life as its leitmotif. This is expressed well by the ritual of the Lucernary, at the end of the First Vespers of the feast-day, on the evening of 3 October: the church remains in the dark during the reading of the “Transitus of St Francis,” the piece, taken from the Franciscan Sources which relates the last moments of […]
