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 […]
On Wednesday 8 November, in the Room of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in St Saviour’s Convent in Jerusalem, Franciscans and Dominicans shared the annual appointment of the Dies Academicus. Every year, this meeting opens the academic year of the Ecole Biblique and of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), the most important Catholic academic institutions in the Holy Land and it is hosted in turn in one of the two locations. The welcome by the Dean fr. Pierri In the […]
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 […]
