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Polish Catholics and Jews come together at the Catholic University of Lublin to celebrate the Jewish Feast of Lights, Hanukkah.Poland has hosted an event titled"In the Glow of the Bethlehem Light of Peace and of the Lights of Hanukkah at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
"May the light of Bethlehem and the light of Hanukkah, hosted together for the third time at the Catholic University of Lublin, be an eloquent symbol of the Catholic-Jewish dialogue, epitomised by our patron and professor, St. John Paul II," emphasised the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin, Fr. Miros?aw Kalinowski, in a letter commemorating the event.
Bishop Cis?o, who served from 2006 until 2016 as the Chairman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference Committee for Dialogue with Judaism, referred in the prayer opening the ceremony to the motto of the Jubilee Year just begun in the Catholic Church:Neocatechumenal and Jewish cantors sang hymns during the ceremony.
Referring to the words of Psalm 119,"Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path", she stressed that"as our faith deepens, God’s word becomes our lamp." "The lighting of the last Hanukkah candle in the presence of the Bethlehem Light of Peace is an expression of the Christian-Jewish dialogue so much cherished and called for by St. John Paul II," said Fr. Rytel-Adrianik.Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and a member of the Honorary Committee of the Abraham J. Heschel Centre for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin, sent his greetings to the participants of the event.
She noted that"Hanukkah means dedication, a week of religious renewal, to rededicate ourselves to our faith."
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