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 […]
An agreement between the Custody of the Holy Land and Bethlehem University to preserve Palestinian cultural heritage, engage students in archaeological excavations and research as well as promote a better understanding of Palestine's rich history and culture. Lauren, an architect with the Custody of the Holy Land, has "transformed" the area of the Shepherds' Field Sanctuary in Beit Sahour into a training center. It is here that she has created workshops for students in archaeology and cultural heritage at Bethlehem […]
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”, […]
On the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the pilgrimage of peace of St. Francis in the Holy Land, Brother Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, pressed from a tablet, directly from the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the button that lit the largest Christmas tree in the world in the city of Gubbio, in Umbria - Italy. Br FRANCESCO PATTON, ofm Custos of the Holy Land "Technology allows you to do things that were once impossible: laying […]
