Why was Brother Tony Bitar, who was kept, today, from the brethren’s greetings by celebrating the feast in heaven, insistent, in his final stances, that the Antiochian Church canonizes Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, of thrice-blessed memory? I have two answers of which I will reveal one, and leave today the second, were we to live, to another day. My answer is that children are the ones who know their fathers the most. I think that the brethren, in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO), and indeed in our entire Church, are concerned, after Brother Tony's passing, to consider this insistence as a recommendation. In the matter of holiness, does Antioch need a recommendation? I mentioned before that there was a decision announced by the Antiochian Synod about its interest in canonizing new saints. Who are they? I do not know. What I know is that, since the passing of Metropolitan Boulos, many brethren in our parishes have drawn the halo of holiness over his head. This is the anticipation of the confident love that holiness is our calling.
The Confident Love
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