“Without Jerusalem, our faith would be only a story”
Meeting of Amici di Saxum in Rome ROME, Italy — On the afternoon of Saturday, June 9, the auditorium of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross filled with Amici di Saxum (Friends of Saxum in Italy), who had come for their association’s yearly meeting. This year,...
Archbishop Pizzaballa Visits the Saxum Visitor Center
ABU GHOSH – Last week, on Wednesday, June 6, the Saxum Visitor Center received an important visitor: Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The archbishop had previously been at Saxum in November...
The word “HERE” has never held so much force: Easter in Jerusalem
It’s Holy Week again. We’ve known the story and our church’s traditions for a long time – but what happens when we’re not only commemorating the events, but actually doing so in the very place where it happened more than two thousand years ago? Holy Week and Easter...