Dear friends,
When you do the little gesture of opening this booklet, the "Book of Offering"; remember that you were chosen from the creation of the world by the only Unique Free Will to fulfill your most personal destiny to live on forever.
When your eyes and ears try to read the meaning hidden within the words, written in letters as old as before the Conscience, traced along lines of darkness on white fragile pages; remember that they were written by the Word of lightening blood. Long, long, a very long time, before the creation of the foundation of the universe (John 1:1).
Awesome is this time. We are upon the crucial moment of the mysterious genesis of the new order on earth and in heaven. Bloomed in the shadow of the unique dream of God, is the order of communion; where any struggle for existence, all feeling of emptiness, any hunger for power, and all desires of divinity find its fullness in that joy flooded from the Holy Host to embrace your unique face, the image of God (Genesis 1)
At this "Holy Mysteries", myriads of Angels of harmony cannot veil the Rock of Golgotha. All the layers of dust and history and the seismic transformation of the face of life don't shut the tomb. The light of the resurrection pulverizes the mortal stone laid on the heart of men. Every morning, some feeble anointed hands at the Holy Altar of the banquet of bread and wine, the real blood and body of Jesus (John 6:55), as the hands of the Meshiho, lift the rock off the grave of the human condition.
Here and now we are called to lift up our mind, our thought and our heart. We are conveyed to unite the past, the present, and the future. Here, we can touch the impossible truth, the wound of God. Here, His call on the cross will break the temple of your heart forever: I Thirst.
Faithful to this eternal cry, we tie our prayers to His holiness pope John Paul the second his beatitude Nasrallah Peter Cardinal Sfeir and to all the bishops every day of this new millennium to offer a worthy "Qorbono" in the face of the Eternal Love.
Fr. Nabil Mouannes, Ph.D.
Pastor
