Every year on January 30, representatives of different Christian denominations meet in the Cenacle – Room of the Last Supper, on Mount Zion. Since the beginning of the Window to Mount Zion project our volunteers have been active in making sure that this special ceremony takes place without any problems. You can read about ceremonies from previous years here, here, and here.
A unique church ceremony
This year, again, our volunteers were there. Here’s a description from one of them:
A Hassidic, Lithuanian, Reform, Conservative, Ashkenazi, Sephardi Jew met in one synagogue for joint prayer.
– Sounds like a joke? or the coming of the Massiah?
It turns out that for Christians it already exists. This week there is an annual ceremony – the Prayer for Church Unity in Jerusalem. Every day of the week there are prayer ceremonies, and all Christian communities pray together – Greek Orthodox, Anglican, Armenian, Lutheran, Latin, Orthodox, Ethiopian. On Thursday, January 30, joint prayer was held at the Cenacle – the Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion. Organized prayer is allowed in the Cenacle only five times a year. Because of the sensitive location, just above King David’s tomb, volunteers from the Window to Mount Zion are there to explain and keep order. Unexpectedly, an ultra-Orthodox man, a doctoral student in philosophy at the Hebrew University, who had heard about the event, came to experience it for himself.
Ceremony open to everyone
Here’s a short video clip of how it looks and sounds:
And here’s her Facebook post, in Hebrew:
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its support of Window to Mount Zion.
