With the celebration of Palm Sunday, Holy Week has begun in Jerusalem. In the very first hours of the morning, there was the procession around the Edicule at the Holy Sepulchre, followed by the Solemn Mass, presided over by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Card. Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The blessing of the palms and the procession around the Edicule At the beginning of the liturgical celebration, the Latin Patriarch gave the blessing to the palms from Jericho and the olive branches brought […]
“The Terra Sancta School in Ramleh is present in all the homes. There is no Arab family in the city that has not had one of its members at this school.” Fra Abdel Masih Fahim, of the Custody of the Holy Land, is proud of the mark that the Franciscan school can leave on society through forming the new generations. Mixed city Ramleh (or Ramla) is in a strategic position, on the road between the port of Jaffa and Jerusalem, […]
Dear friends, May the Lord give you His Peace, 1. In these nine years I have had the pleasure and privilege of being able to offer you Easter greetings from the very places that recall the Resurrection of Jesus and his first apparitions: the empty tomb and the nearby chapels that recall the encounter with His mother, with Mary Magdalene and with the women; Emmaus where Jesus makes himself known as he breaks bread; the Upper Room where he appears […]
The exhibition “Madaba, the city of mosaics” was inaugurated on 18 Juneat the Assisi branch of the University of Perugia (Italy). The exhibition, under the patronage of the Custody of the Holy Land and part of the project of sustainable tourism “DiscoverMadaba”, financed by the Italian Agency for Cooperation for Development (Aics) and implemented by the University of Perugia, also contains a part dedicated to Franciscan archaeology and an accessible reproduction on a 1:1 scale of the mosaic floor of […]
