The Lord said to Simon Peter: "I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” It was with these words from the Gospel according to Luke (Luke 22,32) that the feast-day of the Chair of St Peter opened in Tiberias. On Saturday 18th February; the celebration was presided by the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, in the presence of a Hebrew-speaking community. The liturgy in […]
The Biblical-Theological Continuing Education Course (CABT) organized by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum is being held at the St Saviour Convent in Jerusalem from 23rd to 26th April 2019. "Prophetism and Apocalyptics” is the subject chosen to be studied by the one hundred and thirty participants of the course. Conceived by FatherBellarmino Bagatti, the course was initially for the continuing education of religious but was then extended to include teachers of religion and lay experts on Biblical subjects, especially since when […]
“From one day to the next the shrines were empty, the pilgrims disappeared but the mission of the friars is not forgotten. We are now living our first mission: to be in the Holy Places, pray in the Holy Places and take care of the Holy Places.” Fra Siniša Srebrenović, the guardian of the Convent of the Agony(Gethsemane), of the Custody of the Holy Land, was in the Basilica on the morning of 7 October last, when the antimissile sirens […]
