Mass In Gaza

Bishops from Europe and North America celebrated Sunday Mass "with the small [Catholic] Christian community in Gaza" on January 12, 2020. [1]

Rarely does one learn of Mass being celebrated in Gaza.  Knowing that Mass was celebrated in Gaza where Catholics can still have a life is particularly heart warming.

What is disturbing is that the governments around the world that so often stress the importance of freedom of religion were largely silent despite "the Israeli government [had] prevented Gazan Christians from visiting Bethlehem [where Christ was born] …" this past Christmas [2].  Perhaps there is nothing that the "chosen ones" had done, is doing and will do can be deemed wrong, including the rejection of Jesus "[W]ho was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary" [3] as the Messiah.

Praise Lord for the Epiphany, "a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day [from December 25]." [4]


[1] https://theholyland.org.uk/promoting-dialogue-and-peace-in-the-holy-land/
[2] Ibid.
[3] https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=220
[4] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/epiphany