Holy Thursday for Catholics in Jerusalem opens with the celebration of the Apostolic Administrator at the Holy Sepulchre, continues with the ritual of the foot washing bythe Custos of the Holy Land at the Cenacle and ends with the Hora Sancta at Gethsemane. “To find again the astonishment, almost the scandal before Christ who, in the water of the washing of the feet, in the bread and in the wine of the Eucharist, in entrusting His grace to our priestly ministry surrenders himself into our hands and […]
On Wednesday 22nd October, at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, a small group of Franciscans and worshippers took part in the presbyterial ordination of Fr. Raffaele Tayem,an Israeli Arab, presided by the Greek Catholic Archbishop Mons. Youssef Matta,according to the Melkite Greek Catholic liturgy. Fr. Raffele, from Ibillin (a village in the northern part of Galilee), entered the convent at the age of 18 and after his studies of philosophy, he felt the need to further experience and […]