The Bishops' Conference of Scotland

✝️ Archbishop Nolan travels today to Jerusalem to join fellow bishops from across Europe for the Holy Land Coordination 2025. He will be accompanied by Justice & Peace Scotland's Catholic Social Teaching Engagement Officer, Anne-Marie Clements.

🙏The Holy Land Coordination is an annual meeting that is defined by four Ps – Presence, Prayer, Pilgrimage, and Pressure.

⛪The bishops, accompanied by representatives from various Catholic organisations, go to be present to the Christians who remain in the Holy Land, to let them know they are not forgotten; to pray with them; to encourage pilgrimage to their land; and to advocate on their behalf at home.

📸 Anne-Marie will be sharing "Journals From Jerusalem" posts over the next week, look out for these across our social media.

Image credit: Marcin Mazur, CBCEW.

📸 Journals From Jerusalem - Day One

⛪Today was spent visiting some of the holy sites in and around the Old City of Jerusalem associated with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. These places are often bustling with Christian pilgrims but they have not been visiting over the past fifteen months because of the war, although small numbers have started to return more recently.

✝️A memorable part of Day One was joining the Franciscans on the Via Dolorosa. Every Friday at 3pm they process and pray the Way of the Cross, walking the path Jesus took on Good Friday through the city from the Church of the Condemnation to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

🕯️We offered our prayers while following in the footsteps of Christ's Passion for peace and inside the basilica, in view of the empty tomb, lit candles praying that the light of hope may shine through the darkness.

https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/st-anthony-abbot-the-tradition-of-blessing-animals-2096


Each year on February 17th, Pope Pius XII’s Square outside of St. Peter’s Basilica turns into a farm for the Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot.

https://www.irishcatholic.com/a-familys-journey-of-faith/
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