On Thursday 1 July, the celebration of the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ presided by the Custody’s Vicar, Fr. Dobromir Jasztal, was held at the Basilica of the Agony at Gethsemane, just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The memory of the blood shed by Jesus was the object of worship from the very first centuries of the Christian era, but the historical roots of this celebration are to be sought […]
It's harvest time on the Mount of Olives at the Gethsemane Hermitage. Armed with ladders and rakes, young and old people spent a morning harvesting olives. An international and diverse group. HANNA SJOBERG Sweden “I think it’s a nice tradition and it’s also an important work, it has to be done”. Hanna, with her husband and two daughters, arrived two weeks ago from Sweden. And she reveals a secret: HANNA SJOBERG Sweden “They’re used to picking cherries in Sweden…” Iaioi is […]
