Catholics throughout the Middle East will observe a “Peace Day for the East” on June 27, with a special Mass in each of the countries served by the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of the Middle East (CCPO).
“It has been decided that a Mass should be celebrated in each one of the countries belonging to the Council of the Catholic Patriarchs in the Middle East,” writes Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, “and thus all the patriarchs and bishops are invited to participate in this intense prayer, and to be in a profound Communion of prayer together during this blessed day.”
