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News Letter ING. 45 N° 45 WINTER 2017 @granmagistero.oessh www.oessh.va @GM_oessh Reflections of the Grand Master ANOTHER WORLD DAY OF PEACE, ANOTHER NEW YEAR OF HOPE n the Middle East, renewed prayers for peace but there is no peace, rather tens Iof thousands of innocent dead. In the Holy Land, continuing prayers for freedom but there is no freedom but high, lengthy walls separating families. Prayers as ROMANO OSSERVATORE well for justice, where Arab and Christian minorities still suffer limitations of their human rights. There is no peace but great suffering on all sides. It has been said that the challenge of faith is to know why God is permitting evil and suffering without losing faith in God. What an inspiration it should be to us to witness Christians in the Holy Land tenaciously clinging to Faith in sometimes desperate circumstances. And what a source of satisfaction it should be for us as members of the Equestrian Order, to realize that it is our solidarity with them in prayer, pilgrimages and financial help that strengthens faith of Christians there and offers them hope. Through increased communications such as the Newsletters, Annual Annales, an updated website and our personal visits, we The Grand Master of the Holy Sepulchre in the are striving to convince you, each of our company of the Holy Father, on the occasion of the motivated members, of the essential role you Mass of the Nativity of the Lord in St. Peter’s Basilica play in keeping faith and hope alive among in Rome. c o n t e n t s The Order in Union with THE GRAND MASTER’S CALENDAR X the Universal Church The Order and the Holy Land “NONVIOLENCE: A STYLE OF POLITICS FOR PEACE” III THE HOLY LAND COORDINATION AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FACE TO FACE MEETINGS XI “FOR SOME OF US, HOW FAR JERUSALEM IS FROM BETHLEHEM!” IV CHRISTMAS IN COMMUNION WITH THECHILDREN OF MIGRANTS IN THE HOLY LAND XIII “SO THAT GOD’S CARESS MAY REACH EVERYONE” V THE RESTORATION OF THE “AEDICULE” THAT PROTECTS THE HOLY SEPULCHRE XIV DIPLOMACY OF SMALL STEPS TO BUILD TRUST VII PRAYING FOR THE UNITY OF CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND XV MSGR. ADAM PARKER APPOINTED AUXILIARY BISHOP OF BALTIMORE (USA) IX The Life of the Lieutenancies Proceedings of the Grand Magisterium “A GATE OF LIFE”, TO HELP YOUNG DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE WEST BANK XVIII AMBASSADOR IVA N REBERNIK APPOINTED BEING A FAMILY IN THE ORDER OF HONORARY CHANCELLOR IX THE HOLY SEPULCHRE XXI IMPRESSUM GRAND MAGISTERIUM OF THE EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM 00120 VATICAN CITY E-mail: [email protected] Christians in Israel, Palestine and Jordan. And through the committed leadership of our Patriarchate and its allies on the ground there, we can be confident that our sacrifices are keeping churches and schools open, shelters for refugees and orphans are opened and food provided for the hungry of every and no faith. The 18th century French bishop and theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet suggests that “actions that seem most ordinary are secretly directed by the order of God, and serve his designs without our noticing it, in such a way that nothing comes to pass by mere coincidence.” We can be sure that what we do in the name of God is somehow being ordered by God’s designs in bringing about extraordinary results. Edwin, cardinal O’Brien The Order offers regular support to the institutions of the Latin Patriarchate in the Holy Land, in addition to some specific projects that are presented by this same diocese. Discover the diversity of our work of solidarity, especially in the service of peace, on our website. III N° 45 - WINTER 2017 The Order in Union with the Universal Church “Nonviolence: a Style of Politics for Peace” t was January 1, 1968 when Blessed Pope taught his disciples to love their enemies”. Paul VI gave the world the first message After paying tribute to the commitment to Ifor the World Day of Peace, addressing promote peace through non-violence of himself to all peoples and not just to the people like Mother Teresa and Martin Catholic Church to proclaim that peace “is Luther King but also Mahatma Gandhi and the only true direction of human progress”. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Pope invites This January 1, 2017, Pope Francis us all to “follow the path of non-violence in published the 50th message for this the first place within the family”: it is there important Day showing how the call for that we learn to listen, to dialogue, to give peace never goes out of fashion, it does not ourselves and to live in forgiveness and age, and it does not lose its relevance. This mercy. If within our families we can make should not discourage peace reign, then we us rather it should can really be the encourage us to leaven in the dough greater responsibility that will ferment our as Christians. societies. Yes, as Christians, May Pope Francis as Pope Francis wish for this 2017 forcefully reminds us, resonate strongly in because “to be true our communities: “I followers of Jesus wish peace to every today also includes man, woman and embracing his child, and I pray that teaching about the image and nonviolence”. The likeness of God in Holy Father each person will continued: “Jesus enable us to himself lived in acknowledge one violent times. Yet he another as sacred gifts taught that the true endowed with battlefield, where immense dignity. violence and peace Especially in meet, is the human situations of conflict, heart [...]. He The Pope invites us to “tread the path of non- let us respect this, our violence first and foremost within the family” unfailingly preached (artistic representation of a dove of peace at ‘deepest dignity’, and God’s unconditional Bethlehem University. Picture taken during the make active love, which welcomes visit of the Grand Magisterium’s Holy Land nonviolence our way and forgives. He Commission). of life”. IV N° 45 - WINTER 2017 “For some of us, how far Jerusalem is from Bethlehem!” With this Newsletter at the start of the year, we recall the illuminating papal teachings that accompanied Christmas and Epiphany, to help foster the “spirit of Bethlehem” in our commitment to the Holy Land. et us allow the Child in the by our members in favor of the children of manger to challenge us, but let us migrants in the Holy Land, physically “Lalso be challenged by all those backed by our pontifical institution. The children in today’s world who are lying not Pope has urged us to continue to think of in a crib, caressed with affection by their them with the same feelings of the Mother mothers and fathers”, said the Pope during of God, bowing over them, lowering Christmas Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter, ourselves to them, becoming small in front drawing our gaze towards children who are of their fragility, far from the “power of lying “in squalid ‘mangers that devour appearance” which he denounced during dignity’. Children who hide underground to celebrations for the Nativity of the Lord. escape bombardment, on the pavements of During the feast of the Epiphany, Francis large cities, in the hold of a boat overladen returned to this mystery: “God wanted to be with immigrants…”. born where we least expected, or perhaps The Holy Father’s insistent appeal is desired, in a place where we so often refuse echoed by the Grand Master of the Order of him”, emphasizing the attitude of Herod the Holy Sepulchre during this season, who who was sleeping while the Magi were has called for a greater spiritual engagement traveling ... “Jerusalem slept. It slept in The Pope reiterates his call for a stable and lasting solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict eace to the women and men of the beloved Holy Land, the land chosen and favored by God,” the “PPope said in his Urbi et Orbi, at Christmas. “May Israelis and Palestinians have the courage and determination to write a new page of history, where hate and revenge give way to the will to build together a future of mutual understanding and harmony,” he added. During his speech to diplomats, at the beginning of the year, he reiterated his “urgent appeal” to resume dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians to arrive at “a stable and enduring solution that guarantees the peaceful coexistence of two states within internationally recognized borders.” “No conflict can become a habit impossible to break!” Francis insisted before the ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. “Israelis and Palestinians need peace. The whole Middle East urgently needs peace”, he said again, before receiving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in audience at the Vatican, in mid-January. On that occasion, the President gifted the Pope a rock from Golgotha from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, before inaugurating the embassy of the State of Palestine to the Holy See, one year after the entry into force of the bilateral agreement between the two States. V N° 45 - WINTER 2017 collusion with a Herod who, rather than seeking, also slept. He slept, anesthetized by a cauterized conscience” said the Holy Father, putting us ROMANO OSSERVATORE on guard again against “worldly rules” or even “the cult of power, appearance, and of superiority”. “For some of us, how far Jerusalem is from Bethlehem”, he cried, inviting each of us to have “hearts open to the horizon” as the Magi “were open to something new.” “The Magi did not set out because they A poignant moment during the Christmas celebrations in Rome: Pope had seen the star, but they Francis worships the Child Jesus calling for greater humility and saw the star because they simplicity in human relations in the heart of the Church where “worldly had already set out...” laws” have no reason to exist.
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