In Bethany, the community of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the memory of Lazarus, Martha and Mary, the friends of Jesus, at eh Franciscan shrine, also known as the “house of friendship, welcome and hospitality,” on 29 July. Jesus often came here when we went from Jerusalem to the Galilee or from the Galilee to Jerusalem: he would stop here, in Bethany, which in his time, like today, was a suburb of Jerusalem, a small centre on the edge […]
“My dream is that the representatives of the three Churches that own the Holy Sepulchre can one day celebrate together. Jesus Christ died not to see us divided, but to see us as a single body.” Fra Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, chose “his” Trento (the diocese named in 1964 by Paul VI for a specific “ecumenical vocation”) to give a voice to a hope which in recent years has seen dialogue, relations and trust grow, thanks also […]
On 21 October, the day after the canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus,” the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated a Thanksgiving Mass in St Anthony’s Basilica in Rome. In communion with Lebanon and Syria The mass was presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, and about seventy Franciscans, bishops and priests, were at his side. There were also many faithful, especially from Spain […]
In the unprecedented condition of having celebrated the rites of the Holy Week behind closed doors, very many faithful from all over the world have sought comfort in the liturgies streamed over the Internet from the Holy Land. The Custody of the Holy Land described Lent and the Holy Week from the places where everything actually happened over the website custodia.org and the pages of the social networks. On Facebook, the posts in the past month reached over two million […]
