His Beatitude the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pizzaballa, is visiting London at the end of November.

We are delighted that we will host His Beatitude for sung Vespers on Thursday 28 November at 4:15pm. This will take place, by kind permission of our friends in the Venerable Order of St John, in the crypt of the Priory Church of St John, Clerkenwell, the pre-Reformation home of the Grand Priory and now in the care of the Venerable Order.

This is a wonderfully fitting venue, given that Cardinal Pizzzaballa’s predecessor, Heraclius, consecrated the Priory Church in 1185.

The following Sunday, 1 December (Advent Sunday), the Patriarch will preach at the 12 noon solemn Mass at Westminster Cathedral, and has asked for the presence of representatives from our Order given our long connection with the Holy Land.