The Catholic faithful of the Holy Land have gathered in Nazareth for an intense weekend of prayer which culminates with the opening at diocesan level of the Jubilee, on Sunday 29 December, as all over the world. Pilgrims of hope The flavour of the feast-day was already announced on the afternoon of Saturday 28, with the entrance of the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, and the Solemn Mass of the eve of the feast of the Holy […]
The ribbon was cut for the new classrooms in the Terra Sancta School in Beit Hanina, one of the Arab quarters in the outskirts of Jerusalem on the road that from the city goes towards Ramallah. A renovated school Just a few weeks after the start of the new school year, the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, visited the school, which was completely renovated over the summer. He was welcomed by the head of the Terra Sancta […]
Maria de Lurdes Nunes, who was affectionately called Lurdinha by her friends, a journalist at the Christian Media Center and a missionary of Canção Nova, passed away on Friday 6 December, at the age of 64, after years of a battle against a tumour. She had returned to Brazil only a few weeks ago and a few days ago she was taken to the hospital of Barra Mansa (Rio de Janeiro). She died at 12 noon, reciting the prayer of […]
Since the middle of March, life for the friars and student priests living at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., has undergone two major shifts, as measures to contain the pandemic have drastically changed life around the world, as well as inthis Franciscan friary. Keeping safe First, observing the “stay-at-home” orders of Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., the friars’ ministry and other travel outside the house has been largely curtailed—travel only for essential reasons. […]
