National News Agency – Archbishop Ibrahim Libby welcomes invitation from Al-Farzel Saint Mansour Association to join city elders in loving gathering on holiday

NNA – The Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop of Al-Farzel, Zahle and the Bekaa, Archbishop Ibrahim Mikhael Ibrahim, has responded to an invitation from Al-Farzel’s Mar Mansour Association to join the city’s elders in a meal d love during the holidays.

He was received at the center of the assembly by the president, Rima Bishara and members, the parish priest of Our Lady of Annihilation and Our Lady of Bishara in Al-Farzel, Fathers Tony Abu Araj and Tawfiq Eid, the youth of St. .

Bishara gave a speech in which he welcomed the bishop and the participants, and gave an overview of the establishment of the association in the city and its work in the care of the elderly, and said, “Twice a week, the association provides hot meals that it provides to homes with the support of benefactors and donors from Farzol and from abroad, and today’s table we present For the comfort of the late Al-Farzel, the late Elie Shehadeh“.

Then Ibrahim took the floor and thanked the association for having organized a meeting of love and said: “Happy Eid, and you are very good. I know very well that the city is hit by a wave of pain, especially after the death of the late Elie Shehadeh, the distinguished young man who lost Al-Farzel and gained heaven. In the end, life on earth is a march to God through a corridor of Death, and we die every day. We are used to this path and experience every day, therefore we do not face death as enemies, but as friends, and today we cross the wave of joy that must continue to blow in our lives and in our hearts.

He added: “Today, Al-Farzol has become an illustrious city thanks to the union of its people with each other and their mutual love, with the strength of its men and the virtue of its women. Feast of the Divine Apparition, where God took care of man for the first time in human history and revealed himself as the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, this Trinity which is imprinted on our foreheads at the hour of baptism, and which we seal with the seal of the Spirit and die with Christ to live with Him too. A touch of God is not only for you, but also for us. When we are in your presence, we are before the throne of joy that becomes within us and within our hearts. Today, when we see old age, we do not underestimate their importance. On the contrary, we say that a person, like kings, is not crowned while in swaddling clothes, but when swaddled. He deserves to be crowned and given the name of the king, and today you are queens and kings”.

And Ibrahim concluded: “God willing, our meeting with you today will be a source of joy and life for each of you. I ask the Lord to raise his right hand with my right hand and bless you all, and bless this table and those who prepared it, and to give to the needy of all the earth good things from his divine bounty so that man may live with the dignity bestowed upon him by the hand of God.”

At the end of the meeting, a sweet cake was cut and everyone exchanged Eid greetings.

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