Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th January 2021, as per tradition for the whole of the Church, are dedicated to the liturgies of the Epiphany, including in the Holy Land. Just as the Three Magi did, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, took the road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem in Judea to visit the Child Jesus, laid in a manger. Epiphany, the feast of the revelation of Jesus to the Gentiles, represented by the Three Magi, also followed […]
In their daily work of accompaniment and support for the “living stones” of the Holy Land, the Franciscan friars of the Custody try not to forget anyone, not even the most fragile. For over fifty years they have looked after the elderly of Larnaca, in Cyprus. Right next to the Latin parish church of Larnaca, there is the Terra Santa Rest Home, a home for the elderly, to which the congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart are […]
