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 […]
We continue our discussion about the situation of the Terra Sancta Schools and the educational work of the Custody, which is fundamental as never before today and necessary to education to respect and peace. After the interview with fra Ibrahim Faltas, the Director of the Terra Santa Schools, today the Treasurer of the Custody, fra Tony Choukry, explains in detail the centrality of this educational mission of the Custody in the Holy Land and the resources invested in this sector. Fra Tony, the history […]
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 […]
They are defined “bridges between the Holy Land and Christians all over the world.” There are more than eighty Commissariats of the Holy Land, Franciscan convents or houses with the task of collecting donations for the Holy Land and organizing pilgrimages, in more than forty countries around the world. However, not many people know that the “father” of all the Commissariats of the Holy Land is that of Naples, which still operates today, centuries after it was founded and which […]
