” “"From Gaza to Lebanon, the involvement in the conditions of our peoples in this Land has become a concern and a plea to God". With these words, father Artemio Vitores, custodial vicar of the Holy Land, invites the religious people of the Custody to join the day of prayer launched by Benedict XVI for Sunday 23rd July. "Let’s join our prayer to the heart of the Holy Father and let’s share it with as many believers as we can involve: may God, through the intercession of Saint Francis, have mercy of so much grief and may He give us His peace". "May the Pope’s words concludes the vicar help us shape these intents to pray, make us voice the Pope’s anxiety and concern for our communities and our congregations, live the Day of prayer and penance in the ways that everyone will deem fittest, but in truth and with the total sympathy that the seriousness of the situation demands".” “
