For 800 years, one of the missions of the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land has been welcoming pilgrims to the Shrines. It is a custom which, with the passing of time, has become liturgy: the solemn entrance and the procession at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. In the Holy Land, very often, to understand the present-day liturgy, reference is made to the travel itineraries and the pilgrimage diaries of the past. One of these accounts, […]
“Who can find a woman of valour?”: this is the passage from the book of Proverbs (31,10), with which the Jews honour the figure of the woman, during the Shabbat dinner, which introduces the day of rest of the Sabbath. They are words which the migrant women who work in Israel will have heard many times. It is inspired by these words that the immigrant workers and refugees (the majority of whom are women) celebrate every 10 May the feast […]
