A prayer vigil on the Vigil of Pentecost to invoke the gift of peace for the Holy Land is the initiative of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (AOCTS) who, with the collaboration of the Union of Religious (USRTS) and of the Episcopal Committee of Religious (CERTS), wanted to bring together the faithful in St Stephen’s Church in Jerusalem on Saturday 22 May. The call to prayer for the Holy Land on the vigil of Pentecost was […]
“In celebrating the Eucharist for Italy today, we have to ask what this religious celebration means in the context of a civil event.” With these words, the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, opened his homily during the Holy Mass celebrated on Saturday 4 June in St Saviour’s Church in Jerusalem, for the Day of the Italian Republic, which falls on 2 June each year. As per tradition for its national day, the Custody of the Holy Land […]
