In the afternoon of Maundy Thursday, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the in Coena Domini Mass in the hall of the Cenacle, just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. “Here we can experience the love that goes as far as the gift of the self, and here we received the call to love as Jesus loved us,” is how the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, started his homily (the […]
In the afternoon of Wednesday 17 April, the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, fra Massimo Fusarelli, and the Vicar General, fra Ignacio Ceja Jiménez, took part in the inauguration of the theatre of the Terra Sancta School in Jerusalem. A space for expression and culture After the “Jerusalem capital of the Resurrection” Sports Centre inaugurated in July 2023, for the students and the Old City, in some way the theatre completes the offer of the school, giving the youngsters […]
On the solemnity of St. Joseph the Worker, May 1, the Custody of the Holy Land joined the celebrations for the inauguration of the new roof of Dar al Majus, the office of Pro Terra Santa in Bethlehem. The new roof, made of glass handmade in Hebron, was designed by architect Vincenzo Zuppardo, who has long worked with the Holy Land in service of the preservation and enhancement of holy sites and beyond. In addition to the various employees and […]
Dear youth, I would like to greet you from Cyprus. I am close to you on the other side. I think of you very much, you who are in the Holy Land... a place of pilgrimage which, unfortunately, has suffered in a special way because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Sometimes you do not know what to do, sometimes you think that there is no future and that is why you meditate on emigrating elsewhere... Please, do not let yourself get […]
