Easter Sunday vigil
Christ is risen, Hallujah risen indeed Amen.
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Christ is risen, Hallujah risen indeed Amen.
Holly Thursday, long night and Good Friday in Jerusalem
Hoshana le-ven David: Hoshana, hoshana Barukh haba, beshem Adony, melekh Israel,hoshana,hoshana
Between our cleaning Project we slept and slept in the new beds.
The Cleaners with all their Equpment.
We had fun in moving our belongings, and it took us, one hour and 20 minutes to move our beds, and mattresses, bedside tables and all our belongings to our house. Now we need to clean and sort out, to put in place. May God be blessed Amen.
Sister Juliana Baldinger of the Sisters of Sion, novice mistress of the new novitiate, sent this report on the beginning of the canonical year for the six novices to the Community of the Hebrew speaking Catholics. March 25, 2014, the Feast of the Annunciation, was a very special day for the Sisters of Sion. At Notre Dame de Sion in Ein Karem, six women, from Guatamala, the Philippines, Brazil, and Egypt, began their “Canonical Year†in the newly established Congregational Novitiate there. In this village, some 2000 years ago, Mary the Mother of Jesus confirmed her “Yes†to the unknown, to the seemingly impossible, her humble, “Yes, let it be done to me as you have said.†Two names, Mary and Miryam echo through the millennia, in the Jewish and Christian communities. Countless girls, and even boys, have been given this name because of the promise it holds. Alphonse Ratisbonne, the brother of Theodore Ratisbonne who founded the Congregation, chose to be known as Marie-Alphonse, after the “Event of 20 January 1842, as a way …