With joy and pleasure we welcome this time of penance, crying: Come in peace, blessed Lent, which cleans bodies and purifies souls. Maronite Liturgy
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Let it be proclaimed from the mountain tops: Behold, the merciful Doctor comes; you who are fasting, covered with wounds and sins, offer him praise. Maronite Liturgy
"Love to the point of self-sacrifice: blood is the only ink with which love is written, and everything else is only ink on paper."
From the Eighth Experience of Raymond Nader with Saint Sharbel. Read more from the Eighth Experience. Read the story of Raymond Nader’s Experience with Saint Sharbel. Blessed is the one who implores God with a broken heart, for the Lord listens to the humble.
Maronite Liturgy 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 Send upon our spirits your heavenly light that we may be enlightened during this Lent.
Maronite Liturgy O Christ, our God, King of the universe, the life of souls and bodies,
You have borne our faults and sins to make of us children of God and heirs of the kingdom. Maronite Liturgy By fasting and prayer the fathers mortified their human passion so that you alone might live in them.
Maronite Liturgy Christ our God, you fasted and opened for us the way to life and victory;
accept our prayer, extend your right hand and bless us. Maronite Liturgy Teach us now, O Lord, to fast and pray: by fasting and prayer our ancestors were sanctified and returned to their Lord, and sinners were led along the right way. Maronite Liturgy
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