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Franciscan in Action
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St. Francis entrusted his Friars with the custody of the Holy Places in the Holy Land in order to maintain these places and prepare them for worship as well as for the performance of religious rites. The Vatican confirmed this mission in 1342.
One of the main purposes was to send the friars to live among the Moslems in peace, in harmony, and in brotherhood, testifying for Christ through their life. This is still the key reason for their presence in the Holy Land. For the last 8 centuries they have lived in mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.
In 1225 the Pope requested the Franciscans to maintain the Holy Places so as to strengthen the faith of those Christians living there and to testify for Christ through their life and deeds. The Franciscans were thus able to win the respect of not only the Moslems, but of all people of faith.The founding Custos, Bishop Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM, DD, explained “Just as the Good Friday collection was implemented by the Papacy hundreds of years ago to specifically help to maintain and preserve the Holy Sites and Sanctuaries of Christendom and its institutions, so FFHL was created as yet another Franciscan response to the Christian exodus from the Holy Land. It has been in this area of concern that FFHL has been so successful by providing needed assistance to the Christian population of the Holy Land in an effort to stem the exodus caused by daily discrimination. Our focus is to keep a Christian presence, the “Living Stones” of our Christian faith, in the land.Today, the Franciscans not only maintain the Holy Sites but are deeply entrenched in the lives of the local people:
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