This year, the feast-day of the Finding of the True Cross (Inventio Crucis) was postponed by one week to allow the Easter of the Orthodox Churches to take place. The friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated it on 13 and 14 May in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. St Helena and the finding of the Cross St Helena’s Chapel, the heart of the celebrations, is one of the lowest points in the Holy Sepulchre, […]
An excursion to Turkey to learn the history of the faith in that country from the archaeological, historical and cultural points of view. This was the journey undertaken by 26 students from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum from 19 June to 2 July, accompanied by fr. Yunus Demirci. These activities are the pride of the Studium, which has always been committed to ensuring that its students have a concrete and complete experience of the Biblical places. Istanbul and Cappadocia The first […]
Sixteen Franciscan friars made their solemn (perpetual) profession in Jerusalem, in the hands of the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton. They come from ten different countries and three of them – Alejandro Pinzón Vinchery, Maikel Anjelo and Mervyn Gladstone Gomez – belong to the Custody of the Holy Land, while the others belong to other Provinces of the Order of Friars Minor and are in the Holy Land for their studies. Joy and sorrow Fra Flavio was […]
On Thursday, February 20, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., hosted a concert featuring two choirs: the Indian Springs School Concert Choir, from Indian Springs, Alabama; and the Camerata from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). The selections ranged from the sacred, such as AdoroTe Devote, and the secular, including the Irish classic, “Danny Boy.”The choirs performed individual selections and concluded the evening with a joint performance including pieces by Bach and Handel, from The Messiah. […]
