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Jacques de la Bastide: “Nazareth is the one place in the world where heaven met the earth, where the divinity was united with our humanity. It is not in Rome, it is not in France, not the United States. It is in this little town called Nazareth that the event happened.
“There is no greater event in world history. It is in Nazareth that it happened. (. . .) It happened in a very precise place, in the cave which still exists and around which the Basilica of the Annunciation was built.”
“It is from this foundational event which the whole Church began. The Church began here in Nazareth. It was sent out afterward especially to Jerusalem, and then Rome and worldwide. But everything goes back to Nazareth. That’s why—when we enter the mystery of Nazareth—we enter the mystery of the Church, we understand the foundations, we understand the expansion. And we can understand how the Lord wanted to save humanity.”
“If Nazareth is the starting point where it all began, it is completely logical that the whole world have its gaze turned to Nazareth.”
Msgr. Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo – Latin Patriarchal Vicar
for Israel
M. Olivier Bonnassies – Founder of the Mary of Nazareth Foundation
Msgr. Marcuzzo: “(…) it is the most beautiful place in the Holy Land. It is in Nazareth that the Lord chose to become incarnate, to make himself man, to pitch his tent among men.”
Olivier Bonnassies : “(…) The changeover of creation, the new earth and the new heavens begin in Nazareth because it is there that the Eternal reenters time and changes the course of human history.”
Olivier Bonnassies : "Nazareth, it is the source, it is the root, (…) here the whole Christian movement is born, and if there are churches and cathedrals around the world, it is because, one day, in Nazareth, the Virgin received the angel Gabriel and welcomed the incarnation and said “yes” to it."
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