We are pleased to welcome Fr. John Puodziunas, OFM, as the new Commissary of the Holy Land. Fr. John brings not only decades of pastoral ministry but also a longstanding and meaningful relationship with the region. Through years of close collaboration with the friars of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America, and in [...]
As we approach Palm Sunday, you are invited to honor or remember a loved one by pre-ordering lilies or palm crosses through the Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild. Donated flowers will be placed in our church, and the friars will remember the honorees in their prayers. Please place your order by March 25. Pre-orders can be picked up [...]
Give Hope, Sow Peace. The Good Friday Collection for the Holy Land is a concrete sign of communion and hope. Dear brothers and sisters, May the Lord grant you his peace! As Holy Week approaches, our hearts and our gaze return here to the Holy Land, to the land where the Son of God gave his [...]
On February 17, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Ielpo, visited the Grotto of the Nativity together with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, to verify the progress of the restoration works underway in the place that Christian tradition venerates as the site of the birth of Jesus. The works, entrusted to the Italian [...]
With the proclamation of the Jubilee Year of Saint Francis, it is now possible to obtain a Plenary Indulgence by making a pilgrimage to any Franciscan church or to any place of worship dedicated to St. Francis anywhere in the world, under the usual conditions. But what is meant by “usual conditions”? In addition to praying [...]