On 29 June, the Church all over the world celebrated Sts Peter and Paul, two pillars of Christianity who, from the Land of Jesus set off to announce the Gospel and died martyrs. Amongst the various places in the Holy Land linked to the life of St Peter. there is one that is not very well known: the shrine of St Peter in Jaffa. Here, where there was a large community of Jews who believed in Jesus Christ, tradition has […]
The blaze of a thousand candles advances in thedarkness of St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem: it is the rite of the Lucernarium, the traditional liturgical moment which during the first vespers on 3rd October intends to recall what is known as the "transitus", i.e. the passage from the earthly life to the eternal one of St Francisof Assisi. The founder of the Franciscan order died in the night between 3rd and 4th October 1226, at the end of a life […]
