What, or rather Who, truly feeds the hunger for live and happiness that lives in our heart? This question is answered by the solemnity of Corpus Christi (Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ). “Man’s heart wants life, it wants love, it wants a real presence, it wants God”: this is the message that comes from Jerusalem. Here the Latin Patriarch, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa, presided the celebrations of the solemnity in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. The Vigil […]
We met Fr. Alessandro Coniglio, ofm, recently appointed a Discrete of the Custody, to talk about the last academic year and the new one that will soon be opening at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), of which he is the Secretary and an Adjunct Professor. Fr. Alessandro, can you talk to us about the academic year that has just come to an end at the SBF? How can you take stock of it? The academic year that has ended was […]
With the Armenian Christmas, which in the Holy Land is celebrated on 19 January, the Christmas festivities comes to a close. On Monday 22 January, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land went to the Armenian Patriarchate for the exchange of greetings. The delegation, led by the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton – was received in the great hall of the Armenian Patriarchate by the Patriarch, Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, and by some bishops and […]
The celebrations dedicated to the eight hundredth anniversary of the meeting between St Francis of Assisi and the Sultan Al-Malik Al-Kamel, organized in Damietta and Cairo by the Franciscans of the Egyptian Province “The Holy Family” came to an end on Sunday 3rd March. The Egyptian setting directly evokes the meeting that took place 800 years ago between the Saint and the Sultan and which, even today, speaks to all those who have made dialogue and coexistence their everyday life. […]
