Yesterday, a friend of mine showed me photos from his visit to Old Quebec City. He repeated to me the question I grew accustomed to in Canada: “Have you visited Old Quebec City?". I have written to you about the cities I had visited. This city I had not. Many people recommended to me to ...
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Bishop Alexander Mufarrij
Feast of the City
Thirty-five years ago, one of the brethren priests in Mount Lebanon proposed to some priests in his neighborhood the idea of celebrating together the feasts of the patron saints of their parish churches. However, the idea did not materialize. Yesterday, here, in the city of Montreal, believers from the parishes of the city responded to ...
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4% of the population of Montreal are Arabs! The insanity of politics and the fear for their fate and their children has driven most of them to emigrate out of their countries. When my friend Samir Abi-Ghanem bade me farewell before I travelled, he told me that, here, in this city whose inland seaports open ...
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The priest does not move from one diocese to another prior to his obtaining his presiding bishop’s permission and that of the bishop in whose diocese he will reside. Before my departure, I visited Metropolitan Silouan Moussi to ask for his blessing and prayers. I learned that he would write to Metropolitan Saba Isper that ...
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