A Servant to the Lord of Glory

A few days ago, His Beatitude Patriarch John issued a decree appointing His Eminence Metropolitan Antonios El Souri, Metropolitan of Zahle, the bride of Bekaa, and of Baalbek and Dependencies, as Patriarchal Vicar of the Archdiocese of New York and All North America. This is a significant decision for a number of reasons, two of which I will mention. The first is that the Vicar is a worthy face of the regeneration faces in which you can smell the scent of the fragrant land of Antioch. The diasporas were founded in the hope that those who have left us would remain with us if not in the body, then in the spirit, in the spirit for a while. The land of Antioch is the mother of us all. I am not discussing now the fate of the diasporas that have become confluent peoples. Moreover, Metropolitan Antonios is a man of peace whose presence, in any assembly, says that we are unprofitable servants to the Lord of glory, a man of pure service in whose heart there is no place for anything other than for God and His holiness. May God be with you, Sayyedna Antonios in this ministry, and with your “bride” both in your presence and in your absence.