Generally celebrated on 25th March, this year the solemnity of the Annunciation has been moved to 7th and 8th April. The community of Franciscan friars gathered together with the local community in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, where the place and the memory of the meeting between the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary (Luke 1, 26.38) and the Incarnation of the Word are enshrined. Here the Word became flesh The Judaic-Christian accounts, the narrations in the gospels, […]
A series of events were held in Vicenza between 24 and 26 May dedicated to the Holy Land as part of the initiatives of the “Lymph of the Olive Tree: a Focus on the Biblical Lands.” Lecturers and scholars from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem, which this year commemorates its centenary, also remembered by the exhibition on the Centenary in the hall of the Palazzo delle Opere Sociali in Vicenza. Professor don Gianantonio Urbani, guest professor of Biblical Excursions […]
In the afternoon of 7 October, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land gathered in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem to pray the Rosary together and ask God for the gift of peace in the Holy Land and in the world, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Other initiatives were held in the various communities. The Rosary at St Saviour’s The prayer at St Saviour’s was presided over by the Custos, Fra Francesco Patton. For the occasion, an […]
On Saturday 12 November, at the St. Francis Hall of the Washington Land Commissariat, in the presence of the Father Custos, Fr. Francesco Patton, 160 people gathered for the resumption, after a three-year interruption, of the annual Mass with benefactors and the ritual fundraising dinner. “What a delight it is to be joined by so many friars, friends, colleagues and family members for this celebration tonight,” Paul Schott Stevens said. “It is good to see the tradition renewed tonight after […]
