What did the Fathers of Antioch mean by canonizing the two hieromartyrs Nicholas and his son Habib (Khasha)? In addition to bearing witness to the Truth, they wanted us to strengthen our connection with heaven. \u201cThis is the will of God, your sanctification\u201d. It is true that this is declared by any canonization in the world. Yet, it is also true that the Antiochian Saints reveal, in particular, that Antioch is faithful to the covenant. The blood shed by our martyrs tells that we truly love Jesus, that we believe in Him and in His Salvation, that He is our everything. However, this declaration opens Antioch's eyes once again to Man\u2019s dignity in her land. Men of the great Church repeat God\u2019s Truth, first to themselves. In Antioch, the canonization of new Saints is a declaration of repentance. It is the renewal of the loyalty of pure love to God Who exists in the human being. It is exhorting the soul, more and more, to discern that Christ\u2019s mission in Antioch is the foundation of Antioch\u2019s mission and ministry, it is that Man is everything. May God be glorified in this new canonization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What did the Fathers of Antioch mean by canonizing the two hieromartyrs Nicholas and his son Habib (Khasha)? In addition to bearing witness to the Truth, they wanted us to strengthen our connection with heaven. \u201cThis is the will of God, your sanctification\u201d. It is true that this is declared by any canonization in the ...<\/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":[1955,1957,361,1954,1956,1664,447],"class_list":["post-9133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-antiochian-saints","tag-canonization","tag-church","tag-hieromartyrs","tag-mans-dignity","tag-orthodox-christian-witness","tag-orthodox-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133","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=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}