{"id":9188,"date":"2023-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/pre-nativity-activity\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:00:00","slug":"pre-nativity-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/pre-nativity-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Nativity Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Hazmieh opened a Christmas exhibition, the proceeds of which will go towards supporting social service in the parish. This activity, which will be concluded on Sunday by His Excellency Metropolitan Silouan Moussi, is, like any other \u201cMovement\u201d activity, a framework for prayer, for the ministry of the Word, for supporting common life, and for witness. The opening guest was, Brother Dr. Nicolas Abou Mrad, a specialist in studies of the Bible and ancient languages, who spoke to us about \u201cChristian Zionism: Its Definition and Dangers\u201d. This was a due response to every sick policy that says today that blessing \u201cthe State of Israel\u201d is one of the requirements of the faith that benefit Man in this life and in the life to come! Our guest illumined us by making \u201cthe activity\u201d a framework for defending the truth which nothing we do has any meaning if we are not faithful to it. I personally received two gifts from Brother Nicolas: first his talk, then his new book in which he explains the Book of Psalms in two parts. These are words of gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Hazmieh opened a Christmas exhibition, the proceeds of which will go towards supporting social service in the parish. This activity, which will be concluded on Sunday by His Excellency Metropolitan Silouan Moussi, is, like any other \u201cMovement\u201d activity, a framework for prayer, for the ministry ...<\/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":[1809,1807,361,1808,447,1401,1615],"class_list":["post-9188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-book-of-psalms","tag-christian-zionism","tag-church","tag-nativity-exhibition","tag-orthodox-church","tag-orthodox-youth-movement","tag-social-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188","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=9188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}