The solemnity of Corpus Christi is the feast-day that celebrates the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and reaffirms the faith of the Catholic Church in the real presence of Jesus in transubstantiation. The celebrations in Jerusalem were presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and started on Wednesday 29 May in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, to conclude with the Solemn Mass on the morning of Thursday […]
“Be yourselves, for everyone, signs of hope”: these were the words (you can read the full text HERE) that Pope Francis addressed to the members of the Conference of the Latin Bishops of the Arab Regions (C.E.L.R.A.) who are holding their annual meeting in the Vatican. The Pope greeted them on the morning of 28 August in the Paul VI Audience Hall. Flame of hope The Pope expressed his closeness to those present and the Churches in the whole Region. […]
On the evening of 26 October, the Franciscan church of St Saviour in Jerusalem, hosted the celebration of the Vespers in the Maronite rite, as thanks for the canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus,” eight Franciscan friars and three Maronite laymen. Common prayer The celebration was presided over by the Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land of the Maronites, Moussa Hage, and was animated by the Maronite choir who came especially from Haifa. “Praying together is a very significant experience […]
It was 7 August 1948 when fra Giulio Zanella, as the special attorney of the then Custos of the Holy Land (1937-1949) fra Alberto Gori, purchased the property that is today the Delegation of the Holy Land in Rome. The history of the building in the last century, even before the arrival of the friars, was not easy at all. Known as the Villa Lancellotti, which took its name from its legitimate owner, Prince Filippo Lancellotti, it even became the […]
