Every year hundreds of visitors, most of them Jewish Israelis, come to Dormition Church on Christmas Eve.
Window to Mount Zion – helping the Christmas Eve service
In order to make the service more accessible to visitors, instead of holding the Christmas Eve Mass in German, they held it mostly in English, partly in Hebrew, and even in Arabic. This year, even the sermon was delivered in Hebrew – fluent Hebrew – by Father Daniel.
Delivering the Christmas Eve service
Although the Dormtition Abbey has a large church sanctuary that can hold hundreds of people, the community of monks who live there is very small. And during the ceremony and its preparations, they can’t always make sure the audience is calm or explain where the bathrooms are to everyone who needs them, or just be there as a helping hand. This is already the fourth year that the dedicated volunteers from Window to Mount Zion have helped out at the Christmas Eve service, and we are proud to have a part in helping the service run smoothly and without incident. We were delighted to take part on this special night.
Window to Mount Zion volunteers
Follow this link to read more (in Hebrew) about Christmas Eve, on the Window to Mount Zion web site. Here’s a short video of the event that was published on Window to Mount Zion’s Facebook page:
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for their support of Window to Mount Zion.
