A program of cultural and artistic events linked to the history of the Micelic cult and of the City of Monte Sant’Angelo itself has been added to the program of religious and spiritual celebrations before the Feast of the Apparitions. In synergy with the city administration and other local authorities,…...

On the feast day in which the Church celebrates the evangelist Mark and the Italian State commemorates the liberation from Nazifascism, numerous pilgrims have come to the Shrine: families, parish groups, “companies”, coming from local, regional, national and abroad, they gathered in the shadow of the Archangel to celebrate the…...

A festival entirely dedicated to the love of God … the one celebrated on the second Sunday of Easter! The Feast of Divine Mercy was established in 1992 by John Paul II. In reality, it was Jesus himself, appearing in a vision to Sister Faustina Kowalska, to express the desire…...

With Palm Sunday the Holy Week begins. This day begins with the festive welcome given to Jesus in Jerusalem: the blessed olive branches recall those stirred up by the crowd that acclaimed him Master and Messiah.   That same crowd – the evangelical reading of the Passion reminds us –…...

The liturgy of Holy Thursday is a splendid compendium of theology, symbolism and catechesis that “explains” the essence and meaning of being Christian. The solemn celebration was presided over by Fr. Ladislao Suchy. Faced with the numerous faithful present and alongside the concelebrating confreres, the Rector of the Shrine presented…...

“He is not here He has risen!” This evening, March 31, the Church calls the faithful to watch in prayer listening to the Word and participating in the Sacraments: it is the Easter Vigil, or rather a vigil spent in the firm hope of participating in the resurrection of Jesus,…...

Good Friday recounts the passion, the crucifixion and the death of Jesus Christ: an extreme and total demonstration of God’s love for man. Many liturgical signs characterize this day of “extraordinary folly of love”: the church stripped of ornaments, the red color of the vestments, the silence of musical instruments,…...

The Basilica of San Michele finally has its video channel. We could say that, thanks to modern and increasingly useful means of communication, the Shrine of the Archangel also becomes “2.0”. From the end of the month of March (during Holy Week), in fact, a new type of connection began…...