GREAT NUMBER OF PILGRIMS EXPECTED IN JERUSALEM DURING HOLY WEEK
JERUSALEM, APR 13 (ZENIT.org).- Jerusalem is preparing for a great
influx of pilgrims during this Holy Week. There are many foreign
pilgrims already in evidence on the streets of the Holy City, wishing to
live the Paschal mysteries very intensely during the Jubilee of 2000.
Given the fact that the Holy Sepulcher Church cannot receive all the
pilgrims, because of lack of space and other organizational difficulties
due to the number of confessions that share this sacred place, services
are being scheduled in other churches in Jerusalem according to
different languages.
Spanish-speaking pilgrims will observe the Easter Triduum in the Church
of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary on Nablus Street. English-speaking
pilgrims have been assigned the "Ecce Homo" Church, St. Anne's Basilica,
and the Holy Land College Chapel. French-speaking pilgrims will meet in
St. Stephen's Basilica on Nablus Street, in the Latrun Abbey of the
Trappist monks, and in the Crusade Church of the Resurrection in Abu
Gosh.
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