This year, the festivity of the Baptism of the Lord, celebrated on Sunday 8th January, was particularly joyous and with a large participation: very many pilgrims came to the west bank of the River Jordan, near the site known as “Qasr al-Yahud”, the place where, according to tradition, Jesus was baptized, a day of grace on which God himself with his voice and which the descent of the Holy Spirit shows that the Lord is his favourite Son. The feast-day […]
On the afternoon of Wednesday January 16, 2019, the Custody of the Holy Land opened its doors to the students and professors of the Winter School of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The lectures were by Profs. Edoardo Barbieri and Alessandro Tedesco, Ph.D. For the occasion, the books chosen for the exhibit, “The Bible on the move: traditions and translations of the Holy Scriptures,” which was introduced last November at the General […]
In Jerusalem, friars and religious have once again implored peace, and this time they did it by going down and praying the Via Crucis on the traditional route of the Via Dolorosa. The devotion had been suspended since the beginning of the conflict. On Friday 27 October, the moving procession along the 14 stations which mark the route between the Sanctuary of the Flagellation and the Holy Sepulchre took place on a particular day: that chosen by Pope Francis for […]
