Schools of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

“ Ut Cognoscant Te” Schools of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem LPS Palestine English Issue - 29 May 2016 A cooperation agreement between LPS and Real Madrid charitable Association The general Administration participating in the protest demonstration to amend the Social Security Law Pope Francis congratulates Patriarch Twal Latin Schools Forgiveness Educa- tion at the LPS Talents Unlimited Graduation Workshops 2016 2016 The equation of success Palestine Bir Zeit 1864 The Fourth School of LPS Our Schools in May Aboud Taybeh Beit Sahour Ramallah Bir Zeit Ein Arik Nablus Zababdeh Gaza Beit Jala Java-Nazareth: 20/5/2016 Java Nazareth The First Graduating Class English Issue - 29 2 May 2016 A cooperation agreement between LPS and Real Madrid Charitable Association On Tuesday April 26th, the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem and the Spanish Associa- tion Real Madrid signed an agreement of cooperation which aims at supporting LPS in Palestine, Galilee and Jordan through training LPS students, developing their talents and creating sportsmanship among the schools. Present at the signing ceremony were his beatitude Fuad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Bishop William Shomali, Patriarchal Vicar, Fr. Imad Twal, the general administrator of the patriarchate, Fr. Dr. Faysal Hijazen, the director-general of LPS in Palestine and Galilee, Fr. Dr. Jamal Khader, rector of the Latin Patriarchal Seminary, Fr.George Ayoub, secretary of the patriarchate, Mr. Samer Badra, director of LPS administration ofice , Mr. Issam Nasser, inancial director, and students from Beit Jala LPS wearing the formal uniform of Real Madrid. English Issue - 29 3 May 2016 The Spanish sports association was represented by Mr.Julio Gonzales Ronko, director general of Real Madrid Charitable Association, Mr. Lingo Arinellas, director of the Middle East and North Africa and a number of oficials. The agreement aims at training students of seven LP schools : Beit Jala, Beit Sahour, Ramallah, Zababdeh in Pal- estine.Nazaret of Jaffa and Reneh in Galilee and Madaba in Jordan, in football and basketball, as an extra-curricular activity. Real Madrid Association aims at instilling and enhancing the values of sports in addition to promoting the sports activities as an educational instrument capable of con- tributing to the complete development of the participants, and to promote it as an integral factor in society for the beneit of those who suffer any kind of social margin- alization or social exclusion, and aims at the dissemination of the educational culture of sports. Before signing the agreement, coaches from Real Madrid held a two-day training course for sports teachers of the participating schools at UNRWA Qalandia Schooln i Ramallah. English Issue - 29 4 May 2016 The general Administration participating in the protest demonstration to amend the Social Security Law On Tuesday, May 10,2016, LPS in Ramallah Governorate and all the private Christian schools members of of the General Secretariat of the Christian Educational Associations in Palestine headed by Fr.Dr. Faysal Hijazen, the director-general of LPS in Palestine and the Secretary General of the Christian Educational Association participated, for the second time, in the oficial protest demonstration to amend the Social Security law. This demonstration was staged by the National Social Security Campaign (NSSC)in Ra- mallah for the purpose of amending the Social Security Law. NSSC wanted, public to make their voice reach the government, to pass a new social security law that guarantees a decent life for workers, and they demanded to pass 17 articles set by national associations and work unions in the private and public sectors, and presented them to the government. Thousands of workers in private and public sectors, in addition to representatives of the legislative council and representatives of the national Palestinian factions and associations, staged a sit-in in front of the cabinet headquarters and demanded to amend the Social Security Law. English Issue - 29 5 May 2016 Pope Francis congratulates Patriarch Twal on his 50 years of Priesthood VATICAN CITY/ JERUSALEM – On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, His Holiness Pope Francis sent a letter to His Beatitude Fouad Twal to congratulate him on his 50 years of priesthood and at the same time thank him for the many missions that the Holy See has entrusted him to this day. Please ind below the English translation of the letter of Pope Francis (original in Latin). To His Beatitude our venerable brother Fouad Twal Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem It would certainly please you to go back in your memory to that distant day, that de- cisive day in your life, when you left behind everything in order to become – by the Al- mighty’s blessings – an administrator and deliverer of God’s manifold graces. Since your ordination, ifty years have passed which you have dedicated in priestly service. It is therefore itting that this memory should culminate in an appropriate festivity. We therefore thought of joining you in remembering the early stages of your life begin- ning in Jordan, your native country, and also the days of your priestly studies, which you pursued at the Patriarchal Seminary in Beit Jala. Indeed, it was there that you began, enriched with the Sacrament of Holy Orders, your priestly ministry, urging the faithful to maintain the legacy of their ancestral faith and devotion, despite the manifold hurdles and hardships, all the while remembering their courageous predecessors. Having completed your basic education and specialization in Church Law at the Pontiical Lateran University, you zealously offered your services to the Holy See, in several coun- tries and later at the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, handling the administration of affairs that would proit and bear spiritual richness in the Universal Church. On your appointment by the late St Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tunis, you were certainly aware of the importance of that region which had prospered in the past, and you undertook to revive among believers the memory of the faith inherited through the ages. At the same time, you were entrusted with the Presidency of the North Africa Bishops Conference. Several years later, our predecessor Pope Benedict XVI gave his consent to appoint you as Patriarch of Jerusalem. There is much evidence there, of which you are perfectly aware, that attests to the importance of this universal city, and you continue to present it to the followers of all religions in the area, in order to work together to overcome the hurdles, regardless of their nature, and to spread an atmosphere of mutual understanding and ac- tion. Our beloved brother, All that has been said is indeed worthy of pride and praise. We want to say it sincerely at this time when you are celebrating this unique event: your Golden Jubilee of Priesthood. We therefore come to you – as though we stand next to you – to assure you of our frater- nal love, and to implore God’s rewards, together with our paternal apostolic blessing on your dear person irst of all, and desiring it to spread over the faithful who urrounds you, we ask you to think of us in your prayers. Issued at the City of Vatican on May 17, 2016, the fourth year of our Pontiicate. Francis English Issue - 29 6 May 2016 Forgiveness Education at the Latin Patriarchate School System At the invitation of Fr. Faysal Hijazen, Superintendent, Professor Robert Enright, a Pro- fessor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founding Board Member of the International Forgiveness Institute, Inc. (www.internationalfor- giveness.com), led 70 teachers in a forgiveness education workshop in Zababdeh on Tuesday, May 24. The workshop began by deining forgiveness, which is part of the philosophy of eth- ics, or the striving after what is morally good. When a person forgives, it is always in the context of being treated unfairly by another person or people. A person forgives when he or she deliberately works on reducing or eliminating resentment toward the offending one(s) and offering goodness of some kind toward the one(s) who were not good to the forgiver. To forgive is to avoid using excuses for the other’s behavior. To forgive is not necessarily to automatically reconcile with those who are deeply hurtful. To forgive is not to ignore justice. Justice and forgiveness grow together. Forgiveness will not reverse injustice. For example, if a person is robbed of his or her money, forgiveness is powerless to recover the stolen property. The importance of forgiveness is that it helps a person to recover from the effects of the original injustice, and those effects very often include the development of resentment or persistent ill- will toward the offending person. Resentment, when deep and long-lasting, can rob a person of vitality and joy. Forgiveness can restore that vitality, enthusiasm for life, and joy. English Issue - 29 7 May 2016 An important point of the workshop was this: Students need to be equipped with the ability to forgive if they will have a tool for overcoming the kind of resentment that can harm them. We take a great deal of care in our educational efforts to help students face the challenges of adult life. Yet, in most educational institutions, teachers do not prepare students for on to deal with the effects of injustice. Too often, adults stumble in their quest to ind a way to forgive because they never have been taught how to forgive. Professor Enright and his colleagues have developed curriculum guides for teachers which allow them to provide scientiically-tested educational approaches to tudentss which help those students learn what forgiveness is, what it is not, and how to go about forgiving people who are unfair to them.

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