The solemnity of Corpus Christi is the feast-day that celebrates the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and reaffirms the faith of the Catholic Church in the real presence of Jesus in transubstantiation. The celebrations in Jerusalem were presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and started on Wednesday 29 May in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, to conclude with the Solemn Mass on the morning of Thursday […]
Seven brown habits make their way, through the Jaffa Gate, to the new entrance of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum, in the Holy City. They are Franciscan friars from the Custody of the Holy Land, who have been invited for a guided tour of the Museum, which was inaugurated after its renewal in early June. Gestures that speak The friars were welcomed by the Director and Curator of the Tower of David Museum, Eilat Lieber, together with the heads […]
Fadi Massabki, originally from Damascus, an entrepreneur in the sector of luxury furnishing, is considered the closest descendant to the Massabki brothers. They were the three Maronite laymen who will be canonized in Rome on 20 October, together with eight Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. The group is better known as the “Martyrs of Damascus”. Fadi and his family will take part in the offertory procession, during the Mass of canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus”, […]
The 2020 Massolini Calendar, dedicated to Cyprus, was presented in the Aula Magna of the Diocesan Cultural Pole of Brescia, on 20th December. Father Jerzy Kraj, Delegate of the Custody of the Holy Land for Cyprus was present. The table of speakers was made up of Don Flavio Dalla Vecchia, lecturer in Hebrew Language and Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Father Aldino Cazzago, lecturer in the History of Orthodox Theology at the Catholic University of the […]
