Holy Thursday is special in Jerusalem ...In the early morning and during the celebration, the Chrism Mass and the Washing of the Feet take place here. During the first morning of Holy Thursday, the Mass of the Lord's Supper initiated the Easter Triduum in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The celebration was presided [...]
Eastern and Western Christians together: this year the Easter holiday is celebrated on the same days also by the Jews. This year, holy week is intense in the holy land where, besides the Eastern and Western Christians, the Jews too, celebrate their Easter. The word Easter, Pesach in Hebrew, means 'passover' and commemorates the end of [...]
ROME (CNS) -- Fifteen Franciscan friars continue to live and work in Syria; two of the friars minister in towns controlled by Islamic State forces. Father Michael Perry, minister general of the Franciscans, visited most of the friars the first week of April, but he could not enter areas controlled by Islamic State or by forces [...]
We are following the footsteps of Christ during the days of his Passion: from the betrayal grotto, to the sacred garden to the rock where Jesus gives his entire self to the Father. We are in Gethsemane at the grotto also referred to as the Apostles’ cave or the betrayal grotto. This is the oil mill [...]