On Friday 4th and Saturday 5th December, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa, recently appointed Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, in the respect of tradition, made his solemn entrance into the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre and then celebrated a Solemn Mass. Starting out from the Latin Patriarchate, the delegation of Franciscan friars, together with that of the Patriarchate reached the Jaffa Gate, one of the entrances into the old city of Jerusalem: it is from this gate that the personalities to whom […]
Pope Francis’s visit to Cyprus opened with a message of encouragement for the local Church, in the footsteps of St Barnabas and St Paul. The first meeting for the Holy Father, who landed in Larnaca in the early afternoon of 2 December, was with the consecrated men and women of the Holy Land and the local ecclesiastical movements. In the Maronite cathedral of Nicosia, Pope Francis wanted to speak to them about patience and brotherhood, two words which have to […]
