Holy Week 2021 in Jerusalem opened on 28 March with the procession and solemn mass of Palm Sunday in the Holy Sepulchre. The celebration presided by the Latin Patriarch, Mons. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, was attended by an assembly of local worshippers: a sign of hope to a return to a normal life, after last year when, because of the health emergency, the liturgy of Palm Sunday at the Holy Sepulchre took place behind closed doors. In the Holy Edicule, where there […]
As every year on the days following Easter, delegations from the different Christian Churches in Jerusalem went to St Saviour’s Convent for the ritual exchange of Easter greetings with the Custos and the Franciscans. The visits started on the morning of Tuesday 19 April, when the Greek Orthodox delegation led by His Beatitude, the Patriarch Theophilus III, reached the Custody of the Holy Land at St Saviour’s Convent in a procession and was cordially received by the Custos, Fr. Francesco […]
