The Roman Martyrology commemorates on 14th November the memory of St Nikola Tavelić, the Croatian religious of the Order of friars minor, celebrated for having been the first martyr of the Custody of the Holy Land. On this very day, the Croatian community of Jerusalem celebrated a mass in honour of St Nikola at the Cenacle, on Mount Sion, inauguring on the site a bronze statue of the saint, by the Croatian academic and sculptor Vid Vučak. The homily of Fr. […]
The firm and steady voice of fr. Luis Enrique Segovia, guardian of the Franciscan Convent of St Catherine in Bethlehem, reaches us by telephone from the Basilica of the Nativity. Once again war and violence are cutting through the Land of Jesus and Bethlehem, the “house of bread,” is today even further away. This is because in the past few days, the checkpoints that control the accesses to the Palestinian territories have been closed, and as a consequence, all the workers […]
