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The Mystery of Christ’s Cross Renewed in Desecrated Mosul

Aug302017
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MOSUL, Iraq – Following the liberation of Mosul, Iraq, from the hands of the Islamic State, Christians are cautiously returning to the city. And as they return, so does the Mass.

Father Luis Montes, a priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, celebrated Mass earlier this month at Saint George Monastery. The priest traveled to Mosul to record part of a documentary entitled Guardianes de la Fe(Guardians of the Faith), which seeks to show the reality of life for Christians in Iraq and Syria.

In a video posted on the Amigos de Irak (Friends of Iraq) Facebook page, Montes said that the Mass was celebrated August 9 – a month after Mosul’s liberation – on the feast day of St. Edith Stein, who died a martyr in a Nazi concentration camp.

The priest said it was “a great gift of God” to be able to celebrate the feast day of a martyr in the monastery, which “surely gave many martyrs to the Church.”

Pointing to the damage to the monastery entrance, he said that he believes the lower level may have been “used as a prison at some time, (as) the Christians left their names there written on the walls as a witness.”

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Category: News ArticlesAugust 30, 2017
Tags: CatholicIraqMosul

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