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The Cathedral of St. George the Martyr, Jerusalem
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| One of God's birds enjoyed the music too |
I worshiped twice at St George the Martyr church. I was going to meet Tina for the 11:00 service, but arrived early and followed the music into a wonderful worship service. The sanctuary filled including many internationals. The hymns, organ music and liturgy, much in English, all added to the stirring of the Spirit in my soul.
Below is a paragraph that spoke to my heart. It was printed in the liturgy book and is from an address given to a gathering at
the Cathedral, by Rt. Revd. Suheil Dawani, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Jerusalem and the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.
“All Christians must come here first and foremost as
pilgrims-and I note that you say you’re coming here to Jerusalem is a “pilgrimage.”
Pilgrims here do not bring decisions with them.
They come here to seek prayerfully the decisions God wants them to make. And God will always surprise us. God has not finished with us or with our
Church yet. God the Holy Spirit will
lead us into all truth, and we who come here as pilgrims must be open to the
Spirit’s leading, open to God’s surprising revelation to us.”
Between Services the organ music was fantastic and enjoyed by all.
I found this posted on a bulletin board.
The second service had a guest speaker an English singer,
Garth Hewitt from UK; www.garthhewitt.org. As part of his message he sang one of the songs he wrote for his Peace and Justice Concert Ministry, The Revolution of Love. When the revolution of Love happens, there will be a Just Peace in the Middle East!
Praise God with me for allowing me to worship here, and for speaking to my heart in both services. Pray for those Christians who are denied access to this their church because they are Palestinians.
