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 […]
After the cancellation in 2021 due to the pandemic, the Christian communities of the Holy Land have returned once again to praying together in the churches of Jerusalem, for the 2022 week of prayer for Christian unity. This year again, the important appointment, which brings together the thirteen Christian confessions present in the Holy Land, took place a few days after the official date, to allow the Armenians to celebrate the Epiphany. "We saw his star at its rising and […]
