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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
