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 […]
A native of the Old City of Jerusalem, JamilFriej, 27 years old, is the first student to have completed his studied at the Magnificat Institute. Having obtained a diploma in piano and solfege, Jamil was employed by the administration of the Magnificat Project and Marketing Coordinator and is in charge of relations with the PPAN (Palestinian Performing Art Network). After finishing the exams of harmony and composition, he began to teach children at the school the first courses of solfege, […]
“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 […]
