"Feed my sheep, feed my lambs." In Tabga, a small town on the Sea of Galilee not far from Capernaum, Jesus, the good shepherd, entrusts his Church to Peter. And here, in the place of the apparition of the Risen Christ and the conferral of the Petrine primacy, on the shore of the lake that has witnessed many acts of the Lord, the Custos of the Holy Land, Br Francesco Patton, presided over the Eucharist in memory of the feast […]
The friars who pronounced the solemn profession on Sunday 11th October in Jerusalem come from nine different countries: Congo Kinshasa, Congo Brazzaville, Italy, Syria, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia and South Africa. The sixteen Franciscans made their vows to God to live for the rest of their lives in obedience, without owning anything of their own and in chastity, according to the Rule of the Order of the Friars Minor, in the hands of the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. […]