On Easter morning, at the Church of San Salvatore, Fr. Francesco Ielpo, Custos of the Holy Land, presided over and solemnly concluded the Easter Triduum together with the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. The Consul General of Italy in Jerusalem, Domenico Bellato, also took part in the celebration, as a sign of closeness to the Franciscan presence and the local Christian community. As required by the Status Quo, the Easter celebration also took place that same morning […]
The “Treasures of the Holy Sepulcher” collection has arrived in Texas, bringing with it a powerful message, even amid the winds of war, the Terra Sancta Museum reaffirms why art still matters in times of violence. Despite the war looming over the Holy Land, part of the team of the Terra Sancta Museum , Art & History traveled to the United States. Fr. Stéphane Milovitch, President of the Board of Directors of the Terra Sancta Museum, and Claudio Domeneghetti, Project […]
Dear brothers and sisters, may the risen Lord grant you his peace. In this Easter, celebrated here in the Holy Land in a time marked by so many wounds and sufferings, we are called to live the resurrection of Christ not only as an event of the past, but as an occurrence that reaches us today, in this concrete situation, and that brings with it a judgment on our history and on our life. Saint Peter, in the Acts of the Apostles, announcing Jesus to the family of the centurion […]
On Sunday, February 22, all the friars of the Custody present in the houses in Italy – Naples, Rome (Delegation), and Montefalco – together with our students from Assisi and Florence, gathered for a day of fraternity on the occasion of the ostension of the body of Saint Francis of Assisi at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. The day began with lunch together in Montefalco, a joyful and fraternal moment shared also with the five postulants of the […]
