Just as in almost every other part of the world, Christians in the Holy Land are invited to participate in Holy Week and Easter liturgies through live streaming.

“It won’t be the same,” Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told Vatican Radio, “but it will be an occasion for families to pray together in a new way,” recuperating a domestic dimension of prayer that has been lost.

Archbishop Pizzaballa, who is also the former Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land, expressed his sadness that Easter in this most holy place will be “really limited because of the coronavirus that is affecting our societies and communities, both in Israel and in the Palestinian territories.”

However, he points out, plans are in place to make sure all the liturgies, “according to our tradition at the Holy Sepulchre and at the Latin Patriarchate” will be provided through live streaming by all the parishes of the diocese.

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