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The back of Father Paolo, the head of the monastery. He was just getting ready for Sunday mass, which was conducted in Arabic, with bits of Syriac mixed in apparently. He kindly translated certain bits into English and Italian for those of us in the audience who didn’t understand what was going on. A beautiful and strange service, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. I’ve got some video footage which, like the rest of it, I’m going to have to upload once I get out of Syria.
