Rome Newsroom, Jan 18, 2021 / 12:00 pm
Catholics and Jews in Poland observed the annual Day of Judaism with psalms, music, and silent prayer on Sunday.
The main commemorative event took place on Jan. 17 at the Bródno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world, where around 320,000 people are buried.
Polish Catholics have observed the Day of Judaism since 1998. This year, the day was marked with a common Liturgy of the Word followed by remarks from Catholic and Jewish leaders.
The reading was taken from the Book of Deuteronomy, on which the motto of this year's commemoration was based: "Life and death. 'Here, then, I have today set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.'" The quotation is from Deuteronomy 30:15.