Newsletter N° 62 July 2021 jerusalem cross ordinis equestris sancti sepulchri hierosolymitani @granmagistero.oessh www.oessh.va @GM_oessh Message from the Grand Master The peace of the Risen Lord: a gift to share ummer is a time when we can generally what we do: it will allow us to show a more rest and pray more. I would like to authentic face. Sencourage you to take advantage of and I am aware that Knights and Dames weave consult some of the fundamental documents relationships in the Lieutenancies that aim to made available to you: the book on the build a Church of communion: it is precisely spirituality of the Order, the Constitution, the Church that we love, that we establish, and the Ritual. In addition, you can read and the Church that we want to serve with faith! reread the publications in five languages on Therefore, I urge you to deepen your the official website of the Grand commitment to the Order, walking a path Magisterium, which are full of exciting that accompanies us in our Christian life. accounts of what the Order lives and Fernando Cardinal Filoni accomplishes. Let us witness all this to those around us, with simplicity and missionary spirit! We speak profusely of our spirituality The Grand Master of rooted in the the Order of the Holy empty tomb of Sepulchre invites the Christ, forever Knights and Dames to give witness to victorious their spirituality, against death. which is based on Let us the empty tomb of communicate Christ victorious over death. who we are and contents The Order in Union with The Order and the Holy Land the Universal Church PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS IN GAZA SUPPORTED A SPECIAL PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE BY THE WHOLE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LAND XV HOLY LAND II TOWARDS THE CLOSING OF THE DEFICIT ANNUAL PEACE DAY FOR THE EAST III OF THE LATIN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM XVIII STORIES OF A GREAT HISTORY IV WELCOME TO THE NEW APOSTOLIC NUNCIO The Life of the Lieutenancies TO ISRAEL AND CYPRUS, APOSTOLIC DELEGATE TO JERUSALEM AND PALESTINE V MEETINGS WITH THE GRAND MASTER XIX Proceedings of the Grand Magisterium THE ROYAL COLLEGIATE-BASILICA OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF CALATAYUD XX GOVERNOR GENERAL’S TERM RENEWED VI A RICH SPIRITUAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIFE Culture OF THE LIEUTENANCIES VII A NEW BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE GRAND MASTER ANSWERS QUESTIONS THE ORDER XXIII ON THE ORDER’SNEWRITUAL IX CONCERNING PROBLEMATIC SITUATIONS GRAND MAGISTERIUM OF THE EQUESTRIAN IN THE ORDER XII ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM TWO NEW MEMBERS OF THE GRAND 00120 Vatican City MAGISTERIUM XIV E-mail: [email protected] The Order in Union with the Universal Church A special prayer for peace in the Holy Land Faced with the Queen of peace, tragedy that the Chosen daughter of a land once again devastated inhabitants of the by wars, hatred, violence. Holy Land are We, Knights and Dames of the Holy Sepulchre, experiencing at this confidently implore you: moment, the Grand Do not allow Our Lord’s cry at the Holy City’s inability to understand Master has shared a the gift of peace, special prayer written To once again fall into the void of indifference and political calculation. by him that we Help us to see the afflictions of so many mothers, fathers, brothers, publish here. The sisters, children, victims of destructive forces that are blind and members of the Order without a future. and their friends are Inspire paths of dialogue, vigorous resolve in the resolution of problems all invited to recite and a collaboration of sure hope. this prayer by May we never become immune to oppression, Cardinal Filoni every May we never consider the struggles as ‘inevitable’, day and spread it as May we never see the victims they produce as ‘collateral’. much as possible May good will prevail over the logic of aggression, during the summer in Help us to see that the solution of many problems is not impossible. a spirit of As you prayed amid the Disciples on Pentecost, communion and obtain from the Almighty paths towards a shared solution hope. to the apparently insurmountable situations in the Holy Land. ORG . COPYRIGHT LPJ Annual Peace Day for the East his is an initiative coming from the salt of your lands, give flavor to social Lebanon and all the Eastern life, wishing to contribute to the building of “TCatholic Patriarchs have the common good, according to those welcomed it,” said Archbishop Pierbattista principles of the Social Doctrine of the Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, on Church which so urgently need to be the occasion of his trip to Rome in June, a known, as was indicated by the Post-Synodal few days before the launch of the ‘Peace Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Medio Day for the East’. “We decided to unite at Oriente and as you wished to recall in the regional level to pray for and invoke commemorating the hundred and thirtieth peace in our territories, noting that this anniversary of the Encyclical Letter Rerum prayer often comes from outside, from the Novarum.” whole world, but that we, here, especially, Members of the Order of the Holy must consecrate this time together,” noted Sepulchre joined in the prayer through Archbishop Pizzaballa. virtual media, particularly the social Therefore, celebrating the 130th networks of the Grand Magisterium and the anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Latin Patriarchate. In this year dedicated to Rerum Novarum, the Justice and Peace St. Joseph, the Middle East was consecrated Commission of the Council of Catholic to the Holy Family during a Mass celebrated Patriarchs and Bishops in the Middle East – in the Basilica of the Annunciation in located in Lebanon – has set the first ‘Peace Nazareth on Sunday, June 27, in the Day’ on 27 June 2021. On that day, at 10 presence of all the Ordinaries of the Holy am, in churches throughout the East, the Land. An icon of Mary, Jesus and Joseph – faithful prayed intensely “to implore God’s adorned with relics from the basilica – was Mercy and His Peace on the beloved Middle blessed, before departing on a pilgrimage to East, where the Christian faith was born and Lebanon. It will stop in all the countries of always lives, despite the suffering.” the Middle East and will arrive in Rome In a letter presumably on published the same An icon of the Holy Family will visit all the December 8, 2021, day, Pope Francis countries of the East and then arrive in Rome on for the closing of addressed the December 8, for the closing of the Year of St. the year that the Joseph. Catholic Patriarchs of pope has the Middle East, consecrated to the joining in their prayer faithful Custodian and declaring in of the Universal particular, “Truly be Church. ● ● IV Newsletter N° 62 ● JERUSALEM CROSS ● Stories of a great history Father Michele Bellino, Prior of the centenary of the death of Doctor of the Order in Bari and director of the Church Bishop John Chrysostom. On 12 diocesan museum of this East-facing February 1908, a liturgy was celebrated in his city, has agreed to introduce us to each presence, officiated by the Greek Melkite Grand Master of the Order, through a Patriarch of Antioch Cyril VIII Geha, with historical event in the life of the the choir and ministers of the Pontifical universal Church. This summer he Greek College of Rome. In the introduction offers us the first article, on Pope St. to the booklet published on that occasion, as Pius X, celebrated liturgically on August the scholar Manuel Nin3 points out, it is 21, on one of the four feasts of the indicated that in the aforementioned hall, Order celebrated by our Knights and since there was no “isolated” altar, i.e., Dames. In this article detached from the wall, we discover the special that would allow for attention he showed to movement around it the East during the during the various 15th centenary of St. processions and John Chrysostom. incensations of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, another he year 1907 “isolated” altar was constitutes a placed and, in front of it, Thistoric milestone in two lecterns with two the bond between Pope icons of Christ and the Pius X and the Order, Mother of God. Next to with the letter Quam these was placed a third Multa,1 in which the lectern with the icon of successor of Peter We pray with Pope St. Pius X, who was St. John Chrysostom. It assumed the title of Grand Grand Master of the Order, that justice, is interesting to note that Master. The decision made the source of peace, may reign in the in the introduction to Middle East and throughout the world. the Latin Patriarch of this booklet, this Jerusalem his Lieutenant, annotation is still so that the members of the Order could indicated: “the Greek rite will be observed in better grasp the link between the mother its entirety by the celebrants (...) The church of Jerusalem and the Roman pontiff Supreme Pontiff, supreme head of all rites, himself. The attention towards Eastern will at the same time also act as presider of Christians was in line with the choices made the Greek liturgical assembly, to whom the by Pius IX and Leo XIII. In a speech to the principal acts of honor and jurisdiction are Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, on 18 entrusted and reserved (...) He will use the January 1906, Pius X had expressed himself Greek liturgical language”. as follows: “the East, which has the glory of The next day, Pius X in a speech addressed having been the cradle of our Lord Jesus to Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, president of Christ, of preserving his tomb2.” the Committee of the fifteenth centenary, An event that certainly seemed to manifest said: “Yesterday we attended the solemn Pius X’s pastoral solicitude towards the Pontifical, which took us back to the time of Churches of the East was the fifteenth St.