At the Holy Sepulchre the Easter Vigil is celebrated on Saturday morning, and not during the night, as happens in the rest of the world. This particularity is due to the Status Quo, the complex system of historical norms that regulates the coexistence, spaces and times of the different Christian confessions present in the Holy Places. The morning celebration also preserves an ancient liturgical practice of the Latin Church, prior to the reforms of Pius XII in the 1950s, when […]
On the occasion of the centenary of the night commemorating the conversion to Catholicism of the Servant of God Sister Maria della Trinità, a conference was held on Saturday, February 14, accompanied by an exhibition designed to recount in a simple yet incisive way the figure of the Poor Clare who lived in Jerusalem. A journey of crisis and conversion Sister Maria della Trinità, born Luisa Jaques, was born into a Protestant family in South Africa at the beginning of […]
Dear brothers and sisters, may the risen Lord grant you his peace. In this Easter, celebrated here in the Holy Land in a time marked by so many wounds and sufferings, we are called to live the resurrection of Christ not only as an event of the past, but as an occurrence that reaches us today, in this concrete situation, and that brings with it a judgment on our history and on our life. Saint Peter, in the Acts of the Apostles, announcing Jesus to the family of the centurion […]
Dear brothers and sisters,May the Lord grant you His peace! As Holy Week approaches, our hearts and our gaze turn once more to the Holy Land, the land where the Son of God gave His life “to the very end” and from which the Church was born.Even today, from these Holy Places, we continue to draw from the source of Easter the meaning and hope of our service.Yet we cannot hide that the time we are living through is difficult. […]
