Diary of the Middle East Mission – Feb 7

Turquia_igreja_nossa_senhora_rosario3Feb 7

Cold Sunday morning, 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit), in the city of Izmir (Smyrna in antiquity), Turkey.

The Missionaries of Peace go to the neighborhood of Alsancak and participate in the celebration of the Mass in the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, built in 1904 over a small chapel of 1857.