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Very sadly, the Divine Liturgy in English at 9-30 am on Sundays at the Holy Family Cathedral, Lower Church, have had to be put on hold. Until the practicalities we cannot use the Lower Church space. Hopefully this will be resolved very soon. Please keep checking in here for details.

Owing to public health guidance, masks should still be worn indoors and distance maintained. Sanitisers are available. Holy Communion is distributed in both kinds from the mixed and common chalice, by means of a separate Communion spoon for each individual communicant.

To purchase The Divine Liturgy: an Anthology for Worship (in English), order from the Sheptytsky Institute here, or the St Basil's Bookstore here.

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The new catechism in English, Christ our Pascha, is available from the Eparchy of the Holy Family and the Society. Please email johnchrysostom@btinternet.com for details.

Sunday 6 June 2010

Pope and Muslim Leader Embrace in Cyprus' UN Buffer Zone

NICOSIA, Cyprus, JUNE 6, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org


Saturday in Nicosia Benedict, XVI met with an important figure among Cypriot Muslims, Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, 89, spiritual leader of a Sufi movement, and participant in interreligious dialogue. The brief meeting took place outside the apostolic nunciature before the Pope went to celebrate Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross.

The two religious leaders met along the "Green Line," the U.N. buffer zone, which, since the Turkish invasion of 1974, divides the Turkish Cypriot community and the Greek Cypriot community.

According to a Vatican Radio report, the Sufi leader lives behind the church in the north of Cyprus, and came to greet the Pontiff. He apologized for sitting down. "I am very old," said Shaykh Nazim.

"I am very old, too," the Pope responded. Shaykh Nazim then presented Pope Benedict with an ornate cane, a plaque inscribed with the Arabic word for peace and a Muslim prayer-bead rope. The Pope, for his part, offered Nazim a medallion. They then embraced in a gesture of fraternal affection.

At the end of the meeting Shaykh Nazim asked Pope Benedict to pray for him. "I will certainly do so," the Pope answered. "Let's pray for each other."

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