On Wednesday 8 September at the Basilica of St Anne, in Jerusalem, on the solemnity of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the traditional Eucharistic celebration was held which, as well as remembering the religious anniversary, also commemorates the closeness of France to the Custody of the Holy Land. Various French-speaking lay people and religious who took part in the Eucharist on this festive day at the Basilica owned by the French state which has entrusted it to the […]
“I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people / In the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem” The invitation to take part in the solemn profession is introduced by these words of Psalm 116: they are words which became reality on Saturday 15th October, an important day for the whole community of the Friars Minor of the Holy Land, when in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem, eleven […]
