Although there has been more than one year of war, the light of the child of Bethlehem comes this night to light up the world: it is Christmas. On Tuesday 24 December, a day of sunshine welcomed the Patriarch, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in his traditional entry into Bethlehem. Like last year, as a sign of solidarity with the population suffering in Gaza, a more austere and modest mood has been chosen, avoiding, songs, music and the traditional Christmas decorations. On […]
Just before the Consistory of 30 September, when His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa will be elevated to the rank of Cardinal, he wanted to meet journalists at a press conference which was held on the morning of Tuesday 21 September in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Pierbattista Pizzaballa is about to leave for Rome, to define the last steps towards receiving the red biretta which will take place on the esplanade of St Peter’s Basilica next Saturday, 30 September. During the […]
“You are completely beautiful, Mary, and the original stain of sin is not in you”: these are the words that open the hymn “Tota Pulchra”, which from the 4th century have supported and borne witness to the faith of Christians in the immaculate conception of Our Lady. This hymn has always echoed between the walls of Franciscan convents and has formed the hearts of the friars, well before the proclamation of the dogma (1854) to venerate the Immaculate Virgin Mary. […]
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 […]
