“Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany” (John 12,1). The Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land made their traditional pilgrimage to Bethany on Holy Monday, six days before Easter. The perfumed oils and Good Friday The Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, presided over the Solemn Mass which included the blessing of the perfumed oils which will be used on Good Friday, during the traditional funeral procession in the parishes of Jerusalem and to […]
The annual appointment with the Biblical and theological refresher course (CABT), promoted by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF)l returns to Jerusalem (Immaculate Auditorium of St Saviour) from 2 to 5 April next. This will be the 47th edition and takes place in a very particular year: that of the centenary of the SBF but also the year marked by the conflict in Gaza. “We will dedicate this edition of the CABT to all those, without any distinction, who are suffering […]
On the occasion of the appeal of H.B. Card. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, addressed a letter to the friars of the Custody inviting them to dedicate the Solemnity of the Assumption, 15 August, to the prayer for peace in the Middle East and throughout the world. For this important day, the Custos of the Holy Land requested and received from His Beatitude the ecclesiastical approval of the prayer to the Virgin (the text […]
It has been five months since the journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed on 11th May while reporting, during an Israeli raid on Jenin. On Wednesday 26th October, her family was received in the Vatican and they were able to greet the Pope after the general audience. The family was accompanied by the Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, Fr. Ibrahim Faltas. In the afternoon, still in Rome, a divine liturgy in suffrage of Shireen was celebrated in […]
