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CNA Staff, Mar 31, 2021 CNA.- Christians will celebrate Easter at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre this year after the storied church remained closed last Easter due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, presided over Palm Sunday Mass on March 28 at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with a small group in the church and more than 2,000 people participating in an outdoor Palm Sunday procession.
More than half the population of Israel is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, and authorities have relaxed some restrictions to allow small congregations to gather for Holy Week with social distancing measures in place, Reuters reported.
Easter celebrations return to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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Just a few blocks from Notre Dame Seminary, a core group of about a dozen Eastern-rite Catholics in communion with Rome worship every Sunday in a chapel adorned with icons of Jesus, Mary and the saints.
For the last 22 years of its 45-year existence, St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Mission Church at 2435 South Carrollton Ave. – located in a former savings and loan building that has been beautifully adorned with iconography and stained glass – has been a sacred space filled with the bells and incense that most Latin-rite Catholics would associate mainly with Christmas or Easter liturgies.
Each Sunday at 10 a.m., St. Nicholas celebrates the Eastern rite’s Divine Liturgy – the term for Mass. Father Nile Gross, associate academic dean at Notre Dame Seminary, has faculties to celebrate the liturgy, assisted by Deacon Gregory Haddad of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, who was ordained in 1996 and has been the administrator of the Byzantine mission for the