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After the Holy Gospel , the shepherd gave a sermon entitled "The Son of Man Lost and Saved," he declared: "L. The Lord Jesus met Zechka, and it was an emotional encounter between him and Zacchas The first sin is to deny aid to the poor and to compensate them by giving them half of their property, and the second sin is to commit an injustice against one who is over 10 years old and to compensate him four times Then the Lord Jesus announced, "Today the salvation of this house has come … The Son of man has come to seek the lost and to save him." (Luke 19: 9-10) If he did not meet Jesus, he would not have met his sin. "The Lord Jesus is a light that reveals to us the potentialities of our hearts and souls, hidden from us because of material interests and self-fulfillment, which, like a malignant disease, erodes Man from the inside without feeling. "
Patriarchal in the city of Dear Deman, and it was customary to participate with the people of the beloved Deman, the residents and the spread, I you greet all, and we are on the c And in the Holy Valley in general, and especially in the patriarchal seat of Qanubin, where the Patriarchs lived with the Sisters, the Almohads and the inhabitants of the valley for four centuries, in order to preserve the people: Catholic faith and independence. The patriarchs came to Qanawin in 1440 with Patriarch John Al-Jaji, because he has a fortress surrounded by the courage of the inhabitants of Ehden, Beshri, Jibta, Hazaroun and the event that has resisted the Mamelukes in the spring and autumn of 1282, Chief of the Patriarch Daniel Hadashiti, although the invaders were burned, destroyed and beaten with the sword, as our dear professor Antoine Francis says in his book, adapted from the writings Patriarch Atefan Doueihi, entitled "Alasia, a historical novel". I congratulate the people of Daman for the new pastoral church that is warming with its enclosure. God rewarded them with a flood of grace and blessings. We welcome the volunteers of the civil defense and salute their efforts and their sacrifices at the service of the Lebanese society. We hope that the state will respond to their just demands, so that they can live in dignity with their families, because they are an essential organ. We remember our martyrs who were killed during the service. I am happy to welcome the "laicism Charles de Foucault" of several nationalities. This group draws its spirituality from the thirty years that Jesus lived in Nazareth, in order to activate his role in the testimony of Jesus Christ through ordinary life. "
" The group holds its tenth world meeting in Lebanon for the first time in an Arab country, Subject: "Let's walk in hope, we are disgusting, disrespectful and advertisers." This theme, which includes four words and the imperative to follow, helps us to read the teaching of the Gospel from today. Hope is a window in the life of every human being that opens on two dimensions: the first dimension, the constancy of faith and values in the face of difficulties, tribulations and opposites. The second dimension is the expectation of God's manifestation in our lives, leaving him room to intervene, just like Zacka the publicist when he mounted a Gematze to see Jesus, an act of humility that he did in the children 's mind. Uncertainty is a fundamental virtue, especially for those who have power in the Church and in the state. That's what Zakka, the publicist, prisoner of his fortune and his salary as chief of the public, abandoned his selfishness and deafened his ears when hearing the pain of the poor and keeping the money from the Injustice which he deprived him of. In the collection of ten. "
He said," Yes, the national life and the march of the state is not right, if the holders of power are not characterized by the qualities of abstraction and of humility. This is the root of our current political crisis, the crisis of government formation. Is not it because each team adheres to its interests, its share, its earnings and its calculations? If they were stripped and humiliated, like Zakka al – Asar, the government would have formed the situation! They resolved the virtue of hope and trust in the care of God, and left it on the ground to show its manifestations, make courageous decisions and win by themselves, like Zaka. The humble stripper leaves room for the work of God in his life, with his great results for the good and good of the congregation. The virtues of abstraction and humility invite us to two positions of disapproval and statement. We deplore the excessive use of political power, tyranny, injustice or the seizure of public money, or a means of illicit profits, profits and profits, which is a noble art in the service of public good at all levels. We denounce the neglect of the economy, the nerve of the country, in all its sectors, and therefore the impoverishment of the people, and the pace of the state in a serious financial deficit, and open the door to migration in the face of our educated youth and our living force. We declare that the Lebanese people have lost confidence in political power today more than yesterday. Yesterday, less than 50% of them participated in the parliamentary elections, and more than they exercised this right of mistrust. Today, seeing the decline of political life after the elections, they have become more and more suspicious. Where are we going? This is not the state that belongs to anyone, but the holders of authority are trustees and trustees, and the agent must be "honest and wise, in what". He is called to feed the people ", as the Lord Jesus says in the Gospel (Matthew 25:45). We do not accept this situation and this type of political practice, do not accept the appropriation of constitutional principles, norms and laws and practice injustice by the non-application of the justice, especially the decisions of the State Advisory Council of the relevant ministries, as we see in a number of. Who do the oppressed use to receive their rights? "
The Shepherd concludes," Yes, the man needs salvation. To this end, God the Son became a man, Jesus Christ. By the grace of this salvation, Zachka, the publicist, repented and changed his life course: at the same time, his repentance caused half of his money to the poor and the return of what he had stolen four times . Personal salvation has its collective fruits. We ask God, through the intercession of our Mother Mary, the Lady of the Sisters, to us and to all men, the grace of repentance for our salvation and the good of the congregation.
After Mbad, the shepherd received participants in the Divine Sacrifice and writer Antoine Francis introduced his new book "Asia", thanking him for sponsoring the signing ceremony.
The shepherd also received the head of the Lebanese social movement, John Mufraj, who offered him his condolences to his sister, hosted him in the north and introduced him to the general situation, especially the subject of l & # 39; writing. Government.
A "You deserve the greatest reward and attention of the state, you offer martyrs for the rest of the others and we will update you with the President of the Republic who received your file "Said the patriarch to the delegation of civil defense. We thank you for your visit and I badure you that the Lord will open the door of good to you to solve this problem. "
Yusuf al-Mallah gave a speech in which he mentioned the positions of the Patriarch, asking him to shade them with his good robe.To fulfill their demands" We come to you to deliver us from oppression you are like us with the tears you shed on your sister. We, in the civil defense, will keep our hands on the whole territory of the motherland "
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