Welcome to our home, Na\u00ef. Welcome, O pretty one who has followed her two siblings in getting born. Life did not allow us to rejoice in welcoming you in the faraway country. I am welcoming you from afar. I am writing these lines for you. I hope, when you read them, that you will say that there is a priest who loves me and has left me a legacy that life consists of acceptance. Excuse us! The politics of your country Lebanon has implanted in us that it is a renounceable country. All those in our circle know that \u201cI want to love you face to face\u201d. This is a word that your sister had said to me on the visit of last summer. Literally she said: \"I want to live with you face to face\u201d! I am borrowing the word, first for its eloquence, then to show you that, for as long as I am alive, I am steadfast in waiting for you, free from the ignorance of those who want us outside our country, whoever they are or whatever their position in it is. I am waiting for you, then. I want you to play, before my eyes, songs of joy. I want you to prove, on the soil of Lebanon, that the end of sorrows is a residing Pascha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to our home, Na\u00ef. Welcome, O pretty one who has followed her two siblings in getting born. Life did not allow us to rejoice in welcoming you in the faraway country. I am welcoming you from afar. I am writing these lines for you. I hope, when you read them, that you will say ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2555,357,2116,394,2554],"class_list":["post-8557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-acceptance-in-faith","tag-lebanon","tag-orthodox-christian-family","tag-pascha","tag-priests-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}