“This Sunday, here in Cana of Galilee, we are invited to understand all the value of human love, starting from the love that God has for all his people and the whole of humanity, which is like the love of a groom for his bride.” With these words, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, explained the meaning of the solemnity celebrated on 17th January in the shrine of Cana of Galilee where the church of the first miracle […]
Just a few days after the Orthodox Christmas, which falls on 7 January according to the Julian calendar, the Custody of the Holy Land visited the heads of the Orthodox Churches for the traditional Christmas greetings. On Monday 10 January, the Franciscan friars started with an encounter for greetings at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, to then continue at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate and, lastly, the seat of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. They exchanged the […]
