May is a blessed month, its St.Mary’s month and all Chistians and non-Christians in Lebanon visit Our Lady of Lebanon at Harissa ..

Here is a picture i took today, hope all ur prayers are answered.

Happy Easter to all Orthodox Christians !

And a special happy easter to all the Syriac Orthodox !

My only wish is that All Christians celebrate at the same time every year, instead of burying and resurrecting the Christ twice every year … and i dont care which side is right ..

This article proves that love can eventually be blind

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Al Masi7 Kam .. 7akkam kam.

Wishing all the mothers out there a magical day !
This year, Mother’s day coincides with Good Friday, the day St Mary witnessed her only child, Jesus Christ, be crucified.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont

Why do we do it ?

The tradition of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday is an ancient practice, probably originating in Rome, where early pilgrims visited the seven pilgrim churches as penance. They are Saint John Lateran, Saint Peter, Saint Mary Major, Saint Paul-outside-the-Walls, Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls, Holy Cross-in-Jerusalem, and traditionally Saint Sebastian Outside the Walls. Pope John Paul II replaced St. Sebastian with the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Divine Love for the jubilee year of 2000.

For those of you outside Lebanon, here are few pictures of the churches i visited today, that way you can at least visit them virtually

Mar Maroun, Achrafieh ( Pic1 , Pic2 , Pic3 , Pic4)

Catholic Capucin Church, Beirut (One of the oldest catholic churches in Beirut), (Pic1, Pic2).

Maronite Church, Beirut ( Pic1, Pic2 )

Saydit el Bchara, Achrafieh ( Pic1, Pic2)

Mar Antonios Church, Achrafieh ( Pic1, Pic2)

St Joseph Cathedral, Achrafieh ( Pic1, Pic2, Pic3)

Mar Charbel, Adonis

And here is an eigth church that i did not visit today, but that is very meaningful to me and that i love visiting from time to time.

Saydit el Maysseh Church, Jbeil :
(Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4)

I wish all Christians ( Catholics) a blessed Palm Sunday.

I chose this very nice picture from Poland, quite original.

Qatar has 70,000 Christians nowadays.

Work has begun on the construction of Qatar’s first purpose-built church in the desert outside Doha, the country’s capital.

Although the country’s native inhabitants are entirely Muslim - and are prohibited by law from converting to another faith - the new Catholic church will cater to the large number of Christian migrants who have come to the Arabia Gulf state in search of work.

Roman Catholics from all over the Arabian Peninsula - many of them migrant workers - are helping to pay for the $15m building, which is scheduled to open at the end of the year.

Overseeing the church is Paul Hinder, the Catholic Church’s Bishop of Arabia. A Christian in the heart of the Muslim world, his diocese is the entire Arabian peninsular, encompassing six countries.

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I just want to wish all Maronites & Christians a blessed St.Maroun day.

I wish we could all take 0.1 % of that man’s faith and apply it in our society. Unfortunatelly we have reached days where we should worry if Frangieh will spare St.Maroun in his daily insults against the Patriarch and the Church.

I wanna wish all Christians in Lebanon and outside it a happy fasting ..

Fasting is not going on a diet or starving yourself, it is not about food at all ..
It is about committing yourself not to do or eat or practice something you love ..

It is about testing your strengh and faith in yourself and in Jesus Christ ..

In essence, it means to abstain from satisfying hunger or thirst, and any other lustful needs we may yearn for.

May all our Christian readers have a blessed fasting.

Happy Christmas to all Armenians and a blessed Epiphany to all Christians in General.

Epiphany, meaning ‘appearance’ or ‘manifestation’, is a Christian feast intended to celebrate the “shining forth” or revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus.

I love seeing all balconies lightened up on that night and most importantly i love eating la galette des rois

On Behalf of the ouwet.com team, i want to wish you a merry christmas to you and your family.

I find Christmas to be a special day, a joyful one no matter what happens, the family gathering, the gifts and prayers at midnight all make of that day a magical one.

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel and BRIKH MAWLODE D’MORAN ( in syriac) to all.

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a human being like no other and for us Christians the son of God ..

Jesus Christ was an extraordinary man, a perfect individual for all to follow, that committed himself to his father’s teachings and died for them and for us …

Throughout the centuries, We as Christians misinterpreted his teachings at many times, worked against his will at many times and killed each others in his name …

In Lebanon, we are still doing that, what started as a Cause to defend Free Christianity turned into a bloody fight between brothers .. I just wish we can get back to this man, and try to do 1% of what he did … and i am not referring to the Church here, nor to praying every Sunday … let us put all those behind, and look up for that great person, for that great God ..

Two quotes sum up what i just said, two quotes that express my feelings on us Christians today:

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Ghandi

“In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. ” Friedrich Nietzsche

What is Eid Al Ad7a ?

Eid al-Adha is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims and Druze worldwide as a commemoration of Ibrahim’s (Abraham’s) willingness to sacrifice his son Ismael for Allah.

Here is a picture of Mount Arafat shown in Annahar today.

Why Dont Christians celebrate it ?

Apparently this is part of the Old testament which we dont refer to anymore, and the more important part is that we do celebrate it but in Id Al-Qiama or Easter. To Put it more simply, as Muslims sacrifice a sheep at Al-Adha, and the Jews sacrificed a sheep during Passover in Egypt, so God made Jesus Christ the perfect sacrifice for our sins.

Here is a quote from a useful site i found that sums it up:

Christians around the world celebrate the Adha and the Passover in one glorious celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ (known in English as “Easter” and in Arabic as “Id Al-Qiama.”) This is the Adha and Passover come true!

Wishing all Muslims in Lebanon and around the world a happy and blessed Eid Al Adha.

Those are scans from the No#1 issue of Al-Massira .

It is a real dialogue that occured with St.Charbel in 1878.

Part1 - Part 2 - Part3

( Thank you M.)

I wish you all a blessed Good Friday ..