The Mass in COPTO rituals in Rome for the Jubilee Eastern Churches

Antonella Paliermo – Vatican City

The national dimension, the penalty for intercession and monastic traditions were the distinctive features of the Divine Liturgy Cup, which was echoing on the afternoon of May 12 at the Pauline Church in Bashilica, Santa Maria La, next to the grave of Bob Francis.

The celebration was chaired by Ibrahim, the first beating. Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria from the Coptic Coptic and President of the Patriarch Association and the Bishops of Egypt.

Cardinal Claudio Ghoghotti, Governor of Decicia for Eastern Churches; His personal secretary, Father Emmanuel Sabradach; And Monsignor Filippo Ciambanelli, the Undersecretary of the Defense Ministry itself.

Rituals The jubilee is from the eastern churchesWhich will be crowned with the public with Pope Liu XIV next Wednesday, May 14. This mass is an expression of a church, in its origins, which raise characters such as San Antonio El Grande, Anocorita Dert Desert; Saint -Bakumio and the great theologians such as Santos Atanasio and Sereil from Alexandria, church doctors.

As Christianity arrived in Egypt, the term “Copto” became “an Egyptian Christian”, referring to those who remained loyal to Christianity after the Arab conquest of the country.

Specifically to them – which suffered from persecution, suffering and martyrdom over the centuries – the Cardinal went on my age today, which led to the brave and invaluable value of his testimony.

Unusual and exciting story

The most prominent purple is the martyrdom of police officers, as well as by other Catholics in the eastern rituals. “You are a very expert in the martyrs – Ghoghotti said – because they had a lot, and even recently, some policemen were killed and became famous just because they were lucky because they were known; others were not known.” Cardinal talked about the “exciting history” of this church, which is reflected in its era and its diversity, in an unusual unusual, which has expanded all over the world, in the privacy of the Mass and also in the various suffering that it suffered throughout the history of its land. Despite all this, “I have remained.” It also highlighted some of the reasons that contributed to the survival of these Christians, who managed not to torn from their lands.

The fruit of the wisdom of the martyrdom

On behalf of the entire Catholic Church, the conservative Cardinal thanked this an elegant testimony: “My mission, from brother to brother – emphasized – and this is to tell them that this is his home.

After that, the guidance: “Blindly, because you also need hope. Every time we look at anywhere, we feel that we are surrounded by the possibilities of evil. But we will come to ask how they were able to stay. It was terrible years, from guilty, but they achieved it. The mountains will be the efforts made to create the Church of Cuba.

A precious part of the church

He said that my agent evokes the protection of the Lord “in the face of new difficulties”, so that the membership of the police in the Catholic Church is not just a cause of glory, “but also expresses awareness to be an important part of all Catholics in the world. In addition, he wanted to convey the assertion that the church” cared about “it.

After that, he added a new incentive towards a task: “Be yourself, keep the body of the Catholic Church a unique spiritual experience. God does not tell the number of people there, God tells the quality of existence.

Hope for a free planet from the greed of profit

The Patriarch insisted on a lot of effort that Francisco hated “reconciliation with our joint house”, a title aimed at continuing to hunt with the design. He used the same expression used by the Secretary -General of the United Nations to describe the planet, which is a “boiling world”, and stressed that this does not need delusions, but it is an authentic hope that does not numb, but it also releases, “a hope that drives us to respond to overcoming the greed of profit and wild globalization.”

Hope in world peace

“In the world, the values ​​have been confused, dominated by fear, isolation, existential anguish, daily experiences even in the hearts of believers,” The patriarch still notes, which I reassured: “God also works in the midst of suffering and challenges. Hope prompts us to renew our world without giving us injustice.” Then he expressed her desire to build fair and sustainable societies, and that “the economy of life, not death” has been adopted.

The fourteenth Liu Church, united in the Nijia Council sign

Finally, he went to the Ecumenical Council of Nicea, which approached the 1700th anniversary. Cydrak is entrusted with his prayers in God so that the Church will remain in the new back in this path: in unity, holy, Catholic and Apostolic.