Prepare the way for the Risen Christ on Easter and take advantage of the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Good Friday with the Friars at the Franciscan Monastery. View our calendar to see the entire listing of Franciscan Monastery events.
Join us at the Franciscan Monastery on Good Friday for this devotion that offers witness to Jesus’ Passion and Death. At each of the fourteen stations we prayerfully memorialize and visualize the journey of Christ to the Cross. To be held outdoors, weather permitting. Visit the calendar of events to see all the happenings at the Monastery.
Commemorate the Lord’s Passion with the Franciscan Monastery at 3:30 pm on Good Friday as part of the Triduum leading up to Easter. Find out more about all the events happening during Lent.
This service is a solemn reenactment of The Burial of Christ and is very similar to the ceremony reenacted each year on Good Friday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. There are very few places outside of the Holy Land where this ceremony is performed. The friars process through the church with a figure of the [...]
The Great Vigil of the Resurrection begins at 8:00 p.m. Find out more about all the events happening during Lent.
Adoring Christ, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament, at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America is an experience that will set your heart on fire. Surrounded by the beauty of the main church and replicas of the most revered Christian shrines in the Holy Land, you will be transported to the time when [...]
Celebrate the feast day along with the Holy Land Franciscans at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth through their livestream. Worship along with them at vespers and the Vigil Mass. Vespers - 11:00 a.m. (6:00 pm in Nazareth) Vigil Mass - 1:30 p.m. (8:30 pm in Nazareth) View the livestream here. Visit the calendar of events to see all the happenings at [...]
Celebrate the feast day along with the Holy Land Franciscans at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth through their livestream. Worship with them through the solemn Mass. Pontifical Solemn Mass presided by H.E. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate 3:00 a.m. (10:00 am in Nazareth) View the livestream here. Visit the calendar of events to see [...]
A special Marian Tour will be offered at the Monastery at 1:00 p.m. on April 9th, the feast of the Annunciation. The tour focuses on the seven joys of the Blessed Mother, visiting the replicas in the Church and the Gardens associated with these joys. The seven joys of the Blessed Mother are the basis for [...]
Join us on Thursday, April 12th, 2018 at 7:00 PM as Dr. Bernard Sabella gives a talk on his book A Life Worth Living: The Story of a Palestinian Catholic. Dr Bernard Sabella is Professor of Sociology at Bethlehem University. He gained a Ph.D. in Sociology, Virginia University, USA. He is a member of various Palestinian institutions; scientific [...]