Being in the Holy Land during Lent means having the chance to remember the Passion of Jesus, in exactly the places of the evangelical episodes. Every year, the Franciscans of the Holy Land celebrate, in the name of the whole Church,a Mass in the places where the moments of the Passion of Jesus took place. It is a tradition that dates back to the first centuries of the Christian era. The first stopping place of the peregrinations of this Lent […]
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 […]
