The statue of the Virgin Mary pierced by a sword dominates the altar of the Our Lady of Sorrows on Calvary, which today is within the walls of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. It was exactly there, according to tradition, that the prophecy of Simeon to Mary came true: “And a sword will pierce your soul too” (Luke 2:34-35). On Friday 26 March, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated on that altar the solemnity of Our […]
Since the Omicron variant has spread all over the world, infants and school-age children have also been affected by this new wave of the pandemic. As in other schools, school-family communications began going backwards and forwards at the Terra Sancta College in Amman, in Jordan,to report the cases of infection, the quarantines and the observance of the health protocol to return to class. “Our school is like an emergency ward where the situation is continuously evolving,” says Fr. RaschidMistrih, head […]
