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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…...

Also this year the Micheliti Fathers propose a Week of Spiritual Exercises for priests, deacons and religious: a precious opportunity for spiritual enrichment and fraternal sharing. From 29 January to 3 February 2018, in the places and under the patronage of the Archangel, Fr. Giovanni Matera, OP, will offer the…...