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May We Remain in Your Presence

3/5/2025

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Lord God, may we remain in your presence all the days of our lives, offering you praise and thanksgiving, prayer and fasting. Maronite Liturgy
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Do You Wish Your Prayer to Fly Toward God?

2/27/2024

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“Do you wish your prayer to fly toward God? Make for it two wings – fasting and almsgiving!” St Augustine
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Fasting Consists Not in Abstinence from Food

2/22/2024

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For the honor of fasting consists not in abstinence from food, but in withdrawing from sinful practices, since he who limits his fasting only to abstinence from meats is one who especially disparages fasting. St. John Chrysostom
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A Man Who Sees a Dimension Beyond This Life

1/17/2022

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Painting of St Anthony the Great in The Louvre in Paris
Today, January 17, is the Feast of Saint Anthony the Great, Father of Monks. May his prayers be with us.
"The monk is a man who sees a dimension beyond this life. He sees the next life with the eyes of faith and passionately anticipates eternity on this earth. “At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage …there is no male or female…” This describes the next life, but the monk experiences it now." An excerpt from the article: “Monastic Life in the Church” by Father Edmond Khashan O.L.M.
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Image: Painting c.1465 in The Louvre in Paris. Photo by Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. on Flickr
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O Christ, How Sweet Is Our Fasting

3/25/2021

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​ O Christ, how sweet is our fasting, how delicious is your doctrine. He who fasts with faith inherits the kingdom. Maronite Liturgy
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Do Not Deify Fasting

3/20/2021

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"Fasting is there to strengthen you; do not deify fasting."
From the Eighth Experience of Raymond Nader with Saint Sharbel.

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Read the story of Raymond Nader’s Experience with Saint Sharbel.
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​This Time Is a Time of Fasting, Repentance and Prayer

3/20/2021

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​This time is a time of fasting, repentance and prayer, when we must take you for our model and walk in your steps. It is a sacred time when we receive grace and mercy. Maronite Liturgy
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Our Lord Fasted and Saved the Church

3/17/2021

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​Prophets and messengers fasted, and drew closer to God. Our Lord fasted and saved the Church, giving his body as a food and his blood as a drink. Come, let us offer glory to him. Maronite Liturgy
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Raise Our Thoughts to You

3/11/2021

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O God, during this blessed Lent raise our thoughts to you,
draw us away from the mire of sin, and strip us of every bad intention.
Maronite Liturgy
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Send Upon Our Spirits Your Heavenly

3/8/2021

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Send upon our spirits your heavenly light that we may be enlightened during this Lent.
​Maronite Liturgy
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