Some have defined it the “house of poverty” or the “house ofAnania" and others “the house of friendship". Holy Week in the Land of Jesus starts in Bethany, the town of Lazarus, Martha and Mary – where they lived and cultivated a bond of friendship with Jesus – and begins with the blessing of the Oils. This celebration recalls the episode narrated in the passage of the Gospel according to John (12, 1-11) in which, six days before Passover, Jesus went to Bethany to his friends […]
Entering the world of Status Quo, the rigid system of unwritten rules that since 1852 regulates property, space and time for the Christian communities in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, also means coming across the many objects that are part of the church. Some cannot be moved an inch, others ... move. This is the case with this particular aluminium staircase, which is placed behind the anointing stone the day after Ash Wednesday and it is taken […]
