Following an ancient tradition, this year again a small group of Franciscans from the Custody of the Holy Land, together with some religious men and women who live in Jerusalem, made the annual pilgrimage to the place of St Stephen’s martyrdom on the day the Church celebrates his memory. Medieval pilgrims reported that from this place, outside “St Stephen’s Gate”, as it used to be called by the Christians in the past, or the “Lions’ Gate,” there was a stone […]
On Saturday 11 December the church of the Holy Land gave the Universal Church two new deacons: Fr. Khokaz Iohanna Mesrob, from Syria, and Fr. Fabio Alfonso Morales Meza, from Colombia. The Eucharistic celebration, which was attended by a large number of religious, as well as local and international faithful, was presided by the Apostolic Delegate of Jerusalem, Mons. Adolfo Tito Yllana. Three main aspects of the diaconal service were discussed during the homily: the figure of the “minister of the Word”, […]
