A composed line of faithful receive the ashes on their heads, in front of the empty tomb: thus begins, early in the morning, Lent in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Mgr VINCENZO PERONI Custody of Holy Land "The period of Lent is a strong invitation to allow ourselves to be immersed in this mystery of Passion, Death and Resurrection. After all, the fundamental dimension of Lent is the baptismal dimension, which is precisely that of being immersed […]
In the Holy Land, the past few weeks have been full of meetings between the local Jewish communities and the Custody of the Holy Land, due to many celebrations falling at the same time. For some time now, the two religious group have been engaged in a relationship of inter-religious dialogue which is also expressed in small daily gestures. In this period, there have been inparticular three meetings which we want to recall: the two days of the Open House […]
