ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 18:02 pm

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, at a recent Mass he celebrated told the catechism teachers at the patriarchate’s schools that if faith is not meaningful in their lives, then it will not be meaningful in the lives of their students either.

The prelate offered the Mass on Saturday, Sept. 27, at St. Joseph’s Church in the town of Shafa’amr, Galilee . The parish’s priest, Father Ramez Twal, and Father Ibrahim Shomali, director of the patriarchate’s schools in Galilee, concelebrated the Eucharist.

Shomali told those present that “today, for the first time, we celebrate this special occasion that gives our schools a spiritual dimension, the very foundation of our educational mission.”

“The presence of his beatitu

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