On the evening of Sunday 12 January, during his mission in Jordan, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, visited the Shrine of Mount Nebo, in the care of the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. He was accompanied by the Nuncio in Jordan, Mons. Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, and Mons. Marco Formica, an official of the Vatican Secretariat of State. The Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, Fra Rashid Mistrih, Fra Ammar Shaeen and […]
This year the Celebration of the University and of the Grand Chancellor which takes place every year at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome (PUA) was enriched by a special anniversary: the centenary of the foundation of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem (SBF) , today the faculty of Biblical studies and Archaeology. After the audience with the Pope in the Vatican, on 16 January, a conference dedicated entirely to the SBF of Jerusalem was held in the Aula Magna […]
On Sunday 15 December, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land started the Christmas Novena, a period of spiritual reflection in preparation for the solemnity of the birth of Jesus. This year, the Novena, which is held in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem, focuses on the topic of hope. Every evening at 7.00 p.m., during the celebrations of the Vespers, one of the three friars chosen for the preaching proposes a short meditation on the meaning of […]
The first stage of formation for a Franciscan friar of the Holy Land passes through the convent of Montefalco, a small Italian village in the province of Perugia. Everyone who wants to become a friar in the service of the Holy Land spends a whole year in the convent which is only a few miles from Assisi, before entering the Novitiate, which will be spent in the convent of La Verna. In Montefalco the friars work on improving their Italian […]
