In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 19 April, the bells of the Holy Sepulchre broke the silence of the night, announcing the Resurrection of Christ. It is Easter in Jerusalem, and in the heart of Christianity, where Christ defeated death, the solemn Easter Vigil is celebrated. Due to the Status Quo, which regulates the celebrations between the various Christian confessions which share the space of the Basilica, the Vigil in Jerusalem takes place earlier than the rest […]
A series of events were held in Vicenza between 24 and 26 May dedicated to the Holy Land as part of the initiatives of the “Lymph of the Olive Tree: a Focus on the Biblical Lands.” Lecturers and scholars from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem, which this year commemorates its centenary, also remembered by the exhibition on the Centenary in the hall of the Palazzo delle Opere Sociali in Vicenza. Professor don Gianantonio Urbani, guest professor of Biblical Excursions […]
On Saturday, June 14, at the Church of San Salvatore, Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, conferred the ministries of lector and acolyte on several friars—six lectors and ten acolytes—from the International Franciscan Seminary, located at the Convent of San Salvatore. The celebration took place in the context of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, offering a liturgical and theological setting particularly significant for reflecting on the meaning of these ministries. A life immersed in God’s communion […]
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 […]
