The Hallelujah resonated in Jerusalem in the early hours of the morning of Saturday 30 March: it is the peculiarity of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, where the Easter Vigil is anticipated for requirements linked to the Status quo, that disciplines the life of the different Christian communities of the Basilica. This is why the vigil in Jerusalem is considered the mother of all vigils. The Solemn Mass was presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem H.E. Cardinal Pierbattista […]
The 47th Biblical and Theological Refresher Course (CABT) came to an end in Jerusalem on Friday 5th April after four intense days of lectures and guided tours. The Course, promoted by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum , focused this year on the topic “Worship in the Holy Scriptures and in the Holy Land in the first centuries of Christianity”: the lectures, streamed live on the YouTube channel of the Christian Media Center, started on Tuesday 2nd April at the Immaculate Auditorium […]
The Custody of the Holy Land joins in the initiative of a day of prayer, fasting and penitence called by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for 7 October next, one year since “the Holy Land, and not only, has been plunged into a vortex of violence and hatred never seen or experienced before,” writes the Patriarch in the letter to the diocese (please find attached the complete text). The Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, […]
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 […]