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N° XXVII JUNE 2012 Grand Master on the occasion of the North American and European Lieutenants and Magistral Delegates Meetings said: A COMMITMENT TO OUR ORDER: TO LIVE THE YEAR OF THE FAITH It is going to coincide with the Consulta of the OESSH next year and to witness a pilgrimage of knights and ladies from all over the world to Rome ear of the Faith and New Evangelisation: 2012 and ending on 23rd November 2013) the The Church is mobilised by the Holy Fa- Consulta of the Order will be convoked, which Yther with regard to these events that are is usually meeting every five years and is called going to be of great significance starting from on this occasion to review its Constitution. Im- next autumn and, due to their spiritual nature, mediately after the end of the proceedings, obviously involving the Order of the Holy Sepul- OESSH knights and dames coming from all over chre of Jerusalem. While presiding at the North the world will make a pilgrimage to Rome, thus American and European Lieutenants which took witnessing their commitment to the New Evan- place respectively in Chicago 31 May – 2 June gelisation for the transmission of the Christian and in Rome 14 and 15 June, the Grand Master Faith, in the light of the indications coming from of the Order, Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, took the special Synod of Bishops dedicated to it and the chance to urge all knights and dames to live scheduled to be meeting 7 – 28 October 2012. these events in communion with their own dio- Reverend Monsignor Francis D. Kelly, Mas- ceses. ter of Ceremonies of the Grand Magisterium, Governor General Agostino Borromeo, in spoke to the European Lieutenants about these turn, announced that, during the second half of future events, their particular value to the prac- the Year of the Faith (which, after having been tice of Christian life while serving in the Order proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio and taking part in the initiatives that all the “Porta fidei”, will be starting on 11st November Lieutenancies are called to organise. A COMMITMENT OESSH COMMISSION’S REPORT TO OUR ORDER: ON THE UNDER WAY TO LIVE THE YEAR PROJECTS IN THE HOLY LAND III GRAND MAGISTERIUM OF THE FAITH I OF THE EQUESTRIAN ORDER THE ORDER HAS EXTENDED TO OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE THE ORDER CONTINUES EGYPT THE AID TO ROACO OF JERUSALEM ITS GEOGRAPHICAL PROGRAMMES 00120 VATICAN CITY EXPANSION II FOR THE HOLY LAND IV II N° XXVII - JUNE 2012 THE ORDER ANOTHER RECORD: IN 2011 CONTINUES ITS 11 MILLION EUROS EXCEEDED GEOGRAPHICAL hile expounding the 2011 final balance and the EXPANSION Wincreasing economical support to the Latin Patri- archate of Jerusalem, and the Holy Land in general, he Equestrian Order of the Holy during the North American and European Lieutenants TSepulchre is successfully continu- meetings, the Governor General reported that, thanks ing its geographical expansion. In the to the generosity of all the members of the Order and two meetings of the North American tireless commitment of all the Lieutenants – to whom and European lieutenants, it has been Professor Borromeo, also on behalf of the members of announced that the first applications the Grand Magisterium, wished to express feelings of of the aspiring members of the fore- deepest gratitude – the most outstanding financial re- seen new magistral delegations of sults in the whole story of the Order have been Guam and Latvia are being received achieved (financial contributions from the members by the Grand Magisterium. In Brazil, for an amount of 11.6 million Euros). In 2010 a for- thanks to the efforts of the member mer record had been established for contributions ex- of the Grand Magisterium João de ceeding for the first time the amount of 10 million Eu- Castro de Mendia count of Rezende, ros (10.313). However, in spite of this extraordinary fi- the lieutenancy of São Paulo of Brazil nancial effort, the Order has been called to face new has been rebuilt and foundations are challenges with regard to the various necessities and being laid for a new magistral delega- deficiencies the Order is committed to settle in all the tion in Recife, capital of the federal key sectors in the Patriarchate’s activity: schools, sem- state of Pernambuco. The Primate inary, institutional expenses. cardinal Josip Bozaniç, archbishop of Vice Governor General Patrick D. Powers in Zagreb, expressed his approval for Chicago and Consultant Mr. Pier Carlo Visconti, engi- the introduction of the Order into neer, in Rome, reported on the 2011 final balance, ac- Croatia, in a message to the Grand companied by “RB Audit Italia” audit company’s re- Master cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien. port, and presented the 2012 budget. THE TOWN OF SANSEPOLCRO CELEBRATES ITS MILLENIUM AND WELCOMES BENEDICT XVI n Sunday 13th May, Benedict XV went to Sansepolcro, a town in Tuscany which is very dear Oto the members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, to join the cele- bration of one thousand years from its foundation. In the main square crowded by greeting citi- zens, several knights and dames of the Order with a cape were present together with the Arezzo section president, the mayor Mrs Daniela Frullani, in welcoming the Holy Father and the bishop of the Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro diocese, Riccardo Fontana. It was remembered that two pilgrims, Aegidius and Arcanus, back from the Holy Land and “driven by a great ideal”, built here the first houses of a “city of justice and peace”. And the Pope replied by confirming that “the two saints, in the face of the major changes taking place, began to search for the truth and the meaning of life, on their journey to the Holy Land. On their return, they brought with them not only the stones gathered on Mount Zion but the unique idea” they had conceived there, of building near the source of the Tiber, the river which flows through Rome, the see of Peter’s successor, “the civitas hominis, an image of Jerusalem, which in its very name, recalls justice and peace”. He then ex- pressed his wish that the celebration of the Millennium could be an occasion to reflect that it is, at the same time, an inner journey on the paths of faith and commitment to rediscover the Christian root and serve the common good which “counts far more than that of the individual”. III N° XXVII - JUNE 2012 OESSH COMMISSION’S REPORT ON THE UNDER WAY PROJECTS IN THE HOLY LAND Aqaba Parish Church and Rameh Superior School: the two major buildings near completion tella Maris Church in Aqaba, Jordan, and working for the Parish, and realised that the the new superior School in Rameh, Is- works of restoration of Mizdar priestly house Srael, are going to be completed, accord- in Jordan never started, while its rooms are ing to what the Equestrian Order of the Holy laying in very poor condition and have suf- Sepulchre of Jerusalem Commission for the fered from water problems. Holy Land has been able to verify on the oc- Also not started are the repairs for struc- casion of its first visit, as part of its institu- tural defects and for the renovations of the Pa- tional duty, to their building sites, last No- triarchal Vicarage in Amman, a project which vember. Thomas McKiernan, member of will have to be revised to meet new needs, in Grand Magisterium, and Christa von particular for the purpose of a better use of Siemens, President of the Holy Land Commis- the nearby building which is the venue of the sion and member of the Grand Magisterium Ecclesiastical court and of various offices and too, have respectively made their report dur- to create a connection with the existing hall of ing the meetings of North American and Eu- the adjoining parish. A visit to the Rusfieh ropean Lieutenants. refugee camp is of particular interest, where a These two projects in the Latin Patriar- priest from Sri Lanka takes care of the small chate of Jerusalem are the most important Catholic community and of the Sisters of among all those financed by the Order during Mother Teresa of Calcutta, committed to as- the years 2011 and 2012. The building in sisting children and handicapped people. Rameh is expected to be ready just before the In Madaba, where the Commission veri- beginning of next school year; it is a four-floor fied the progress of the new University, its building whose ground floor will be taken in members were invited to lunch by the family part by the parish hall. The members of the of the patriarch Foud Twal. Finally, the first Commission have cheerfully met some stu- meeting in Amman with the new patriarchal dents, many of whom coming from nearby Vicar, the archbishop Maroun Lahham, was small towns, and the city mayor who is a rep- very important. resentative of the local Druze community. The President Christa von Siemens brought to Aqaba building structural works might be the attention of the lieutenants of Europe an completed by this coming summer; however, article by the Lebanese ex-minister Tarek the financial support for interior fittings has Mitri, for many years Commissioner of the not wholly been granted yet. World Council of Churches. On the Beirut The Commission visited the work in newspaper L’Orient Le Jour, reflecting on the progress in Aboud (inside the Palestinian terri- “role of Christians in the Arab Spring”, he stat- tories) in order to decorously restore the poor ed that their “fear to disappear” is being re- convent of the Sisters of the Rosary who are placed by “the risk to exist”.