Priests' meeting – December 4, 2015

Present at the meeting were all thirteen priests, including the priests responsible for the communities in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Nazareth, Tiberias and Beer Sheba, and both priests working with the Russian-speaking communities.

The meeting began with a time to share on the Gospel that will be read on Sunday, at the liturgy. This was followed by news from the different communities. They welcomed in their midst for the first time a new priest in the Vicariate, Father Alberto Garau. Father Alberto, a priest of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is retired now after having served as parish priest in Eilat and having worked for nine years in West Africa. He lives in the Beer Sheba kehilla.
In addition the following subjects were also discussed:

- the beginning of the Year of Mercy,

- the decision to suppress the publication of Kol Rina,

- the children’s Hannuka camp,

- the family weekend in Tiberias,

- the study day on Nostra aetate,

- the meeting of the Central Committee of the Hebrew speaking Catholic communities,

- the preparations for the World Youth Day in Cracow,

- our young people and their professional future,

- a possible pilgrimage to Rome,

- the ministry of the Church in the prisons,

- Christmas preparations,

- meeting with the Patriarch.

Following the meeting, the priests had lunch together.