The feast of the Visitation commemorates the visit by the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, after having learned that she was to become the mother of Jesus by the work of the Holy Spirit. The friars of the Custody celebrated a Solemn Mass on Monday 1st June in the village of Ain Karem, just outside Jerusalem, where this episode of the Gospel took place according to tradition. The visit by the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth was for the first […]
In a place where peace is constantly pulsating, where the angel announced the birth of the Lord to the simple and the poor: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men", Father Dobromir Jasztal, Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, blessed on 22 July the start of work on a project to serve pilgrims and locals in the area of the Shepherds' Field monastery in the city of Beit Sahour. Br Dobromir Jasztal, […]
