The solemnity eagerly awaited by the whole of the Christian world, Christmas Eve, was this year again celebrated in Bethlehem, culminating in the nocturnal mass of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of numerous pilgrims, faithful and religious who wanted to be in his birthplace. The celebrations were presided by the Latin Patriarch His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa. In the morning, at the seat of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Mons. Pizzaballa received Fr. Amjad Sabbara, parish […]
“Like many dioceses and communities all over the world, we too have answered the call to fast and pray proposed by the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land,” explains fr. Wojciech Bołoz, Guardian and Rector of the Basilica of the Annunciation and Sanctuary of the Holy Family in Nazaret. The Marian sanctuary most visited and best loved by Christians - as all the Franciscan communities in the Holy Land -, has always stayed open, even though there are […]
