Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Closing the Month of Mary in Jerusalem

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The devotion of the Christians of the Holy Land to Our Lady is tireless. It is a love that consists of personal prayer but also of gestures, large and small, such as the custom of entrusting to the Blessed Virgin one’s little girls, dressed in the month of May with the white dress, and the blue veil and cape with which the Mother of God is usually clothed in traditional iconography. To close this month dedicated to Mary, the Latin-rite Christians of Jerusalem gathered together on the evening of May 31 in a long procession along the streets of the old city, accompanying the statue of the Virgin, lifted and carried by the girls of St. Joseph school. Led by Mons. Kamal Bathish, Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General Emeritus, and by the Custos, fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the many faithful marched from Saint Savior’s convent to the Latin Patriarchate. Then, accompanied by the uninterrupted singing of hymns to the Virgin, in the streets decorated for the feast, they returned to the Franciscan monastery as evening descended on Jerusalem for the last prayers addressed in communion with the Mother of all, to whom this land entrusts itself every day.

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