Pray Hard & Play Hard - Ordination Antics
If you were to ask me what it is I will miss most about Franciscan life in the Holy Land my answer would be the way that the local friars pray hard and play harder. Check out these two clips to see what I mean, they both came from the ordination I attended the day before yesterday.
This first clip shows Zaher Abboud OFM as a deacon processing with the Holy Gospel just moments before he was ordained to the Melkite Catholic Priesthood in Shfaram Israel. Zaher’s aunt just happens to be the Mother Superior at the convent where Sr Mona resides. It aint that strange when you consider that there are only 115 000 Christians (Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant) in all of Israel.
The ordaining prelate is Greek-Catholic Archbishop Elias Shakour, a brilliant speaker and one of the most respected church men in all the Middle East if not the wider Christian Church.
…. and these, well these are Zaher’s mates and fellow students dancing to the Spanish version of ‘Ache Breaky Heart’ at the party after the ordination. Yes, you read correctly -Ache Breaky Heart - now, Mr DJ, hit that play button …..
