The celebrations for the great solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus followed on one another from the afternoon of 8 May ion the small chapel where tradition commemorates the place where Jesus rose to heaven. The event of Ascension concludes the apparitions after Easter of the Risen One: the evangelist Luke situates it as the starting point of the Acts of the Apostles, also considered to be a work by Luke: “When he had said this, as they were looking […]
On Saturday 10th June, for the “#Notalone, Meeting on Human Fraternity,” the Magnificat, the school of music of the Custody of the Holy Land, has been asked to take part in the day dedicated to fraternity with music and talent but above all the story of Muhammad Al-Sheikh. #Notalone, organized by the Vatican’s Fratelli Tutti Foundation and broadcast all over the world on Rai 1 and on the Vatican media, is an event inspired by Pope Francis’s “Fratelli tutti” Encyclical, signed […]
The process for the renewal of the position of Custos of the Holy Land and for the election of the members of the 2025 Custodial Chapter, scheduled to be held from 1 to 12 July, has begun. On Monday 16 September, the first phase of voting opened. Each friar received two ballot papers: a white one for the Election of the Custos and a coloured one for the election of the Chapter. The appointment of the new Custos is expected […]
The 12th Day for the Associations of Holy Land, the annual meeting of the voluntary associations which support projects in the Holy Land, was held on Saturday 26th October in Rome in the Auditorium of the Pontifical University Antonianum of Rome, bringing together over one hundred volunteers from all over Italy. The topic of this year’s day was “Acceptance and faiths” in the perspective of the eighth centenary of the journey by St Francis of Assisi to the Orient. When […]
