“In the first place, John the Baptist makes us rediscover that God calls us from when we are in our mother’s womb.” The friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the solemnity of the birth of St John the Baptist in Ain Karem, a small town a few kilometres from Jerusalem. As every year, they gathered on the evening of 23 June in the shrine of St John of the Desert for the celebration of the First Vespers […]
On Saturday 10th June, for the “#Notalone, Meeting on Human Fraternity,” the Magnificat, the school of music of the Custody of the Holy Land, has been asked to take part in the day dedicated to fraternity with music and talent but above all the story of Muhammad Al-Sheikh. #Notalone, organized by the Vatican’s Fratelli Tutti Foundation and broadcast all over the world on Rai 1 and on the Vatican media, is an event inspired by Pope Francis’s “Fratelli tutti” Encyclical, signed […]
On 14 February, the Custody of the Holy Land solemnly celebrated the start of Lent, the time of grace that precedes Easter and a period of fasting, penitence and prayer which opens, as in the whole of the Church, with Ash Wednesday. In the very early morning, while fr. Stéphane Milovitch, president of the Holy Sepulchre, presided over the Mass in front of the Edicule of the Sepulchre, the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton celebrated the community […]
It already promises to be the first step on a path that cannot stop. The meeting dedicated to the "Mediterranean frontier of peace" brought together for three days 58 bishops and patriarchs of 20 countries to discuss the main challenges of the Mediterranean basin - peace, migration, dialogue -, challenges that must be faced together. Br FRANCESCO PATTON, ofm Custos of the Holy Land "All churches, therefore, from an ecumenical perspective, must be able to speak with one voice and […]
