On Sunday 25 September, in the Shrine of Emmaus Al-Qubeibeh, Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, presided, as tradition has it, the mass in honour of St Cleophas and St Simeon, the two disciples who, on their way to Emmaus, met Jesus after the resurrection. The celebration was attended by many Franciscans, religious and the few local Christians of Emmaus, the population of which is mostly made up of Muslims. The Shrine, called of the Manifestation of the Lord, is […]
The feast-day of St Francis of Assisi was celebrated by the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land with the eternal life as its leitmotif. This is expressed well by the ritual of the Lucernary, at the end of the First Vespers of the feast-day, on the evening of 3 October: the church remains in the dark during the reading of the “Transitus of St Francis,” the piece, taken from the Franciscan Sources which relates the last moments of […]
