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 […]
“I was in the rooms of our convent, above the church of Beirut when I heard a very loud noise, like a plane. I went upstairs, I looked outside and the great wave caused by the explosion arrived.” These are the words used by Fr. Roger Saad, a Lebanese friar of the Custody of the Holy Land, who has been in service in Beirut for four years as bursar of the convent, to describe the catastrophe that yesterday befell the […]
