Jerusalem patriarch: Easter homily
April 06, 2015
Patriarch Fouad Twal, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, celebrated Easter Sunday Mass at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
“Every day in the Middle East, we are witnesses of tragic events that make us even contemporaries of Calvary,” he preached. “But our joy and our faith in the Risen Lord ‘no one will take away’ (Jn 16:22), because the Lord invites us today, even in the midst of difficulties that are ours, to taste the first fruits of the Resurrection.”
“Contemporary martyrs continue to bear witness to the Resurrection of Christ,” he added. “Processions, the stones of Jerusalem, Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have lost everything for their faith, and prisoners in the name of Christ, are signs that our Lord is alive.”
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