January 14, 2011

Peace maker in Nablus - Philippa Hitchen travelled this past week in the Holy Land with the so called Holy Land Coordination Group: bishops from across Europe and North America making their annual pilgrimage in support of the Christian communities there. While there she met up with Pax Christi Executive Committee member Ann Farr , now on her Ecumenical Accompaniment placement in the village of Yanoun, not far from Nablus in Palestine who tells her what her work there entails..
Liverpool - Nablus connection - Fr Mark Madden is parish priest of Saint Cecilia in Liverpool in Northern England . The story is that his parish is twinned with Rafidia near Nablus..
Saint Benedict - Time to visit a very special Benedictine currently based at Sant Anselmo here in Rome as Secretary General to the Head of the Benedictine Confederation .He’s Dom Henry O’Shea who was kind enough to share with me some thoughts about this Saint and his Rule .
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