From this small plot of land to the Last Supper there are only a handful of meters. This extreme proximity to the place where the Last Supper took place is what makes the mass at the Franciscan monastery of the Last Supper that closes the feast of Corpus Christi in Jerusalem so special. Br FRANCESCO PATTON, ofm Custos of the Holy Land "We come here precisely because the Upper Room, the "Cenacolino", is very close to the Cenacle, and since […]
It was 4 August 2020 when the catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut attracted the eyes of the world to Lebanon. One year later, Fr. Firas Lutfi, guardian of the Franciscan convent in Beirut and Minister of the St Paul Region, tells of the difficulties of living in a country which is suffering. “After last year’s explosion, Lebanon plunged into a chasm of problems,” he explains, “Even before them there had already been two other “explosions”: the economic crisis, […]
