Only three birthdays are celebrated in the liturgical calendar of the Church: the Nativity of Our Lord, the Nativity of his precursor, John the Baptist, and the Nativity of His Mother. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is important for its fundamental role in the history of salvation and it is commemorated every year on 8 September. In Jerusalem, this important date is traditionally celebrated at the church of St Anne, through a eucharistic celebration. This occasion, as well […]
He is the first Syrian to have been appointed a bishop for his own people. On Sunday 17 September, fr. Hanna Jallouf, a Franciscan of the Custody of the Holy Land, will be ordained Bishop and will take on the position of Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo of the Latins, with jurisdiction over all the Catholics of the Latin rite in Syria. With penetrating light blue eyes, he was born 71 years ago in Khaye, in northern Syria, a land which […]
