With the Chrism Mass and in Coena Domini – combined in a single celebration - at the Holy Sepulchre, the Easter Triduum opened in Jerusalem. The celebration was presided over by the Latin Patriarch, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. This is the Mass with which the establishment of the Eucharist and of the Ministerial Priesthood is remembered: about 250 priests concelebrated and renewed the vows of the day of their ordination. The rite of the “washing of the feet” was held during […]
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 […]
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 30, at the monastery of the Poor Clares in Jerusalem, the diocesan phase of the beatification cause of the Servant of God Sister Maria of the Trinity (Louisa Jaques) was officially opened. For the occasion, the Franciscan community of Jerusalem, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, gathered in prayer at the Poor Clares’ convent. Her life Louisa-Elisa Jaques was born in 1901 in South Africa. She was a woman […]
The convent of the Custody of the Holy Land in Buenos Aires has hosted for the first time an exhibition on St Francis of Assisi. On the feast-day of the saint who founded the Order of Friars Minor, on 4 October, Professor Angela Caia of the Instituto Terra Santa painted me pictures which were then put on display in the Franciscan convent. “St Francis in the art of creation” is the title of the exhibition, inaugurated by the Franciscan friars […]
