For the second Lenten peregrination, on 26 March, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land gathered at Gethsemane, the place of Jesus’s agony. The place of the agony In the Basilica of the Agony, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, which stands in the place known as Gethsemane, there is a rock on which – according to tradition - Christ sweated blood while he prayed to his Father to move the cup of Passion away […]
In the rooms of the SBF Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem, part of the Terra Sancta Museum of Jerusalem, work has resumed for new displays. From the second half of June, until 6 July, architects, restorers and curators were busy in the first mission since the outbreak of the war last October. Renewal continues thanks to the contributions of many benefactors and the support of Pro Terra Sancta. New pieces have been added in some rooms, including the mosaics of the Byzantine […]
Dear friends, As the evangelist Luke recounts, Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem for the census. Since there was no room for them in some hostel, they had to adapt; and they found refuge in a cave, one of those that shepherds also used. In this way they have a little privacy and Mary can give birth to the infant Jesus, who, wrapped in swaddling clothes, is placed in the manger (cf. Lk 2). It almost seems like […]
On 18 and 19 August, Fr. Francesco Patton OFM, Custos of the Holy Land, took part in the celebrations in honour of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, known as the Polish Jerusalem. He presided the solemn Eucharist for the Franciscan missions on Thursday 18 August and gave the homily during the vespers that opened the Procession of the Dormition of the Mother of God on Friday, 19 August. In his homily, he recalled attention to […]
