On the fourth Sunday of Easter, called “of the Good Shepherd”, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land go to Jericho, to celebrate in the church dedicated to the "Good Shepherd". According to the gospel story, Jesus restored the sight of the blind Bartimaeus and converted Zacchaeus, the tax-collector, accomplishing his ministry of God Shepherd for them. This year, the traditional peregrination was enriched by the celebration of the centenary of the dedication of the church and […]
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 Custody of the Holy Land joins in the initiative of a day of prayer, fasting and penitence called by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for 7 October next, one year since “the Holy Land, and not only, has been plunged into a vortex of violence and hatred never seen or experienced before,” writes the Patriarch in the letter to the diocese (please find attached the complete text). The Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, […]
On the eighth centenary of the meeting between St Francis and the Sultan, the Custos of the Holy Land, Francesco Patton, was invited to hold the inaugural lecture of the academic year of the Theological Institute of Murcia (ITM), part of the Pontifical University Antonianumof Rome. The subject developed was that of the meeting between St Francis and the Sultan and its meaning today, in the light of “Document on human fraternity for world peace and living together”, signed by […]
