On Sunday 10th January 2021, after 54 years and 3 days, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land once again celebrated Mass in the church of St John the Baptist at Qasr Al-Yahud, on the banks of the River Jordan, the Christian site where the Baptism of Jesus is commemorated. The liturgy started with the procession of the Franciscans who, from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St John, arrived at the Franciscans’ land not far from the […]
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 […]
