Holy Thursday for Catholics in Jerusalem opens with the celebration of the Apostolic Administrator at the Holy Sepulchre, continues with the ritual of the foot washing bythe Custos of the Holy Land at the Cenacle and ends with the Hora Sancta at Gethsemane. “To find again the astonishment, almost the scandal before Christ who, in the water of the washing of the feet, in the bread and in the wine of the Eucharist, in entrusting His grace to our priestly ministry surrenders himself into our hands and […]
“People from all over Jordan and from the neighbouring countries would gather on Mount Nebo for the feast of St Moses and Holy Mass would be celebrated.” This is how Fr. Raffaele Caputo, superior of the Franciscan Mount Nebo convent describes what used to happen on the solemnity of 4th September, when the Church commemorates the figure of Moses, condottiere, prophet, leader and legislator of the Old Testament. Due to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, this year will […]
