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Photo: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I embrace.
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"I’m going to pray"
Rabweh | 21/11/2015
Thus sang Fairuz, our ambassador to heaven! In many of her songs Fairuz sings about Jerusalem, and faced with the complex conundrum of peace for Jerusalem, she finally declares, “I’m going to pray!” The solution is found in prayer.
Today we offer congratulations to “prayerful” Fairuz on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. Today on Independence Day, when Lebanon faces one crisis after another and the Arab world too faces the most severe crises of its history, let us recall Fairuz and learn from prayerful Fairuz to resort to prayer on Sunday, the Lord’s day, for security, peace and Lebanese independence, so that Lebanon may learn how to keep Lebanon’s Cedar bright!
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“For the mystery of iniquity is already at work…”
The whole world was shocked by the wave of criminal barbarity that broke out in Paris and its suburbs yesterday. We were deeply moved when we learned of this unspeakable horror.
Yet again we find ourselves caught up in the spiral of blind violence that seems to have engulfed our world, and especially the Arab world, for the last five years. It reminds us of the words of Saint Paul (2 Thessalonians 2: 7): “For the mystery of iniquity is already at work…” in this world alienated from God. Neither can we forget the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, speaking of a disaster in his own days, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke, 13: 3)
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Gregorios III says, “Everyone is responsible for this destructive chaos
That destroys people and stones!”
Following the double suicide attack that struck Beirut’s southern suburbs today, Thursday 12 November 2015, HB Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, “appeals to the world’s conscience, because everyone is responsible for this destructive chaos that is destroying people and stones.
“We confront the international community with its responsibilities, given this conflagration that has flared up in all our countries and our region of the Middle East, heralding further wars, acts of violence, terrorism, destruction, hatred and hostility, pitting the confessions and rites of our countries against one another!
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Sunday, November 15th beginning at 2:15 PM at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Philadelphia, PA (check with your cable or satellite provider for channel numbrer). Livestream also available at ukrarcheparchy.us.
The celebration will honor consecrtated life and will include the renewal of vows by men and women religious, the blessing of a moasaic of Blessed Josaphata, SSMI, the blessing of a moasic the Venerable Servant of God Andrew Sheptysky, OSBM, the blessing of a bell tower, and a prayer vigil for Ukraine.
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The 42 metre square house of worship
Artist Oleg Kuzenko (left) still has to apply the finishing touches to his icons and frescoes. Jesuit Father Prof. Dr. Michael Schneider supervises him as he does this, so that absolutely nothing can go wrong at the consecration of the church at St George’s on Wednesday.
Frankfurter Neue Presse | fnp.de | 28/10/2015 Julia LORENZ
From next week, Saint George’s Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology will have probably Frankfurt’s smallest church. The new house of worship, to be consecrated by Patriarch Gregorios III from Damascus, measures just 42 square metres.
"This church is something special: small, but exclusive," says artist Oleg Kuzenko while he contemplates his colourful paintings on the wall and the ceiling, For they depict Jesus Christ, his mother Mary, the Apostles’ Communion, John the Baptist and the four evangelists’ symbols. Oleg Kuzenko created the murals and the icons for Saint George’s Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology’s new Byzantine church, which will be consecrated next Wednesday by Patriarch Gregorios III Laham of Damascus and the Limburg Bishop Thomas Loehr. It will be called "Of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem."
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05.11.2015 (Frankfrut, Germany) - Yesterday, a new Byzantine church was consecrated in Saint George’s Philosophical and Theological College. That is why Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, had made the journey from Syria. In an interview with Christian Scheh he spoke about the situation of Christians in the Middle East, about their relations with Islam and about his impression of the Church in Germany.
From the embattled Syrian capital, Damascus, Patriarch Gregorios III Laham came to Saint George’s College. He gave an interview to this newspaper in the new seminary.