Page Updated 10/27/2007
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Emeritus Eparch of Newton Gold Bits | Thoughts for the Week
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This
Monthly Calendar is intended to share with my friends some of my various
activities and to ask for their
prayers. It is also a substitute for personalized letters when the time
is
too short to write personally, as I would like to do.
+ Bishop John |
After the Congress, I will stay with some of the Bishops as guests of Bishop Ibrahim for an extended week visit of Canada.
During these seven weeks
, I will spend one week at the Melkite Synod in Rabweh (Antelias) and another week or two at the Holy Savior Monastery (Deir-el-Moukhalless, my Alma Mater). The highlight of my stay will be the annual celebration of the Nativity of our Lady on September 8 and the many surrounding festive events. I will make some short visits out of town. Most of my daily schedule will include a morning walk in the hill and valleys surrounding Maghdoucheh and an evening Divine Liturgy at the Miraculous Shrine of Our Lady of Mantara (The Waiting Lady), with individual visits to relatives and friends including all the sick and homebound of the town.
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Happiness keeps You Sweet, Trials keep You Strong, Sorrows keep You Human, Failures keep You Humble, Success keeps You Glowing, But Only God keeps You Going!
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