The celebration of the memory of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in Jerusalem marks the start of Holy Week. Mass was celebrated on Friday 22 March in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, on Calvary at the altar of Our Lady of Sorrows, which separates the Chapel which is the property of the Greek Orthodox from the Latin Chapel of the Crucifixion. The Mass on Calvary As tradition has it, it was the Vicar of the Custody, Fra Ibrahim […]
For almost thirty years, the Magnificat Institute of Music has been open in the heart of Jerusalem; together with the other schools of the Custody of the Holy Land (the interview with fr. Badie of the Akko school is here; the interview with fr. George Haddad of the Bethehem school is here) it is an educational institution that is all the more necessary and fundamental in these times of dramatic conflicts, to teach peace and guarantee a future of coexistence […]
The Blessed Martyrs of Damascus will be canonized on 20 October 2024: Manuel Ruiz López and his seven companions, of the order of the Friars Minor, and Francesco, Mooti and Raffaele Massabki, lay Maronite faithful, as established by the Ordinary Public Consistory, convened this morning in Rome, for the Canonization of some Blessed, and presided over by Pope Francis. “I am a Christian and I will die as a Christian” The martyrdom took place during the persecutions against the Christians […]
The meeting of the bishops and mayors of the Mediterranean, promoted by the Italian Bishops’ Conference, was held in the city of Florence (Italy) from 23 to 27 February 2022, upholding the aspiration ad the courage of Giorgio La Pira, mayor of Florence in the 1950s, who deeply cherished peace and the unity of peoples. The meeting, which follows the one held in Bari (Italy) two years ago, on the subject "The Mediterranean, a frontier of peace, "opened on the […]
