This year, March 20th is the day that represents for the Custos of the Holy Land the start of the traditional peregrinations of Lent in the places of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The first Shrine visited is on the Mount of Olives: the Dominus Flevit – which literally means “the Lord wept”. According to tradition, it was here that Jesus wept looking at the skyline of the Holy City and tells the disciples of the end of […]
The Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land has been reactive to the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the Holy Land, providing food aid. It is Fr. Peter Vasko, a Franciscan friar and President of the American Foundation which supports part of the social projects of the Custody who says this. “We have donated $10,000 to the parish of Bethlehem and $10,000 to the parish of Jerusalem for food supplies,” the priest explains. “We started by getting in contact […]
