During Holy Week in Jerusalem, the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land go back to visit and pray in the places of the Passion of Jesus. Holy Wednesday, according to age-old tradition, is the day of the rite of veneration of the Column of the Flagellation, which is in the Holy Sepulchre in the Chapel of the Apparition. “Columna nobilis” sang the friars of the Franciscan community of the Sepulchre in the hymn and then one by one […]
Tuesday 29 June, the solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, is a special day for the Custody of the Holy Land: every year, on this very day, some young Franciscan friars who have completed their path of formation are ordained presbyters. Coming from Africa, America, and Asia, five new priests were ordained in Jerusalem by the imposition of the hands of H. B. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, who presided the Eucharistic celebration. In his homily, the Patriarch […]
