On the morning of Saturday 30 November, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, made his traditional entrance into Bethlehem, thus marking the start of the period of Advent. The celebrations began in the morning, when the Custos met the representatives of the Latin parish of Jerusalem and the parish priest, Fra Amjad Sabbara, at the diwan of St Saviour’s Convent. This was followed by an exchange of greetings and thanks with the Mukhtar, the representative of the […]
The new liturgical calendar of the Custody of the Holy Land (click HERE to download it) has been published this year again for the Franciscan fraternities and for anyone who wants to follow the liturgical life of the Custody and follow the Franciscans in their peregrinations, which mark the memory and the devotion on the places touched by Our Lord Jesus Christ in his earthly life. The calendar follows the liturgical cycle (B) and starts with the first Sunday of Advent which […]
On the Sunday closest to 15 November, the feast-day of St Leopold of Babenberg (St Leopold the Pious) and the “King’s Feast” in Belgium, the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the Mass for Belgium. During the celebration, in the presence of the Consul General of Belgium in Jerusalem, Wilfred Pfeffer, prayers were said in particular for the reigning sovereigns – Philippe and Mathilde – and for the Belgian nation. The country’s official languages - French, German and Flemish – were […]
More than one million cases of Covid-19 have now been recorded in Argentina and since August there are increasing numbers of cases recorded in the provinces far from the capital of Buenos Aires. Since the start of the lockdown in March, the number of people infected has continued to rise and the restrictions on movement to fight the pandemic have never officially been loosened. It is Fr. Luis Angel Anguita, superior of the confraternity of the convent of Buenos Aires […]
