❤🍃 On Dec. 5, 1965, Pope Paul VI presided the beatification of Father ... (Dayr Al Qamar, Mont-Liban, Lebanon)
❤🍃 On Dec. 5, 1965, Pope Paul VI presided the beatification of Father #Charbel at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. The Pope said: "A #hermit of #MountLebanon is enrolled in the number of the blessed… a new eminent member of monastic sanctity has by his example and his intercession enriched the entire #Christian people… may He make us understand, in a world largely fascinated by wealth and comfort, the paramount value of poverty, penance and asceticism, to liberate the soul in its ascent to God."
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On 9 October 1977, Pope Paul VI presided the canonization of Blessed Charbel. At the time Bishop Francis Zayek, head the U.S. Diocese of St. Maron, wrote a pamphlet entitled "A New Star of the East." Bishop Zayek wrote: "#StCharbel is called the second St. Anthony of the Desert, the Perfume of #Lebanon, the first Confessor of the East to be raised to the Altars according to the actual procedure of the #Catholic Church, the honor of our Aramaic Antiochian Church, and the model of spiritual values and renewal. Charbel is like a #CedarOfLebanon standing in eternal prayer, on top of a mountain". The bishop noted that Charbel's canonization plus the beatification causes of others prove "that the Aramaic #Maronite Antiochian Church is indeed a living branch of the Catholic Church and is intimately connected with the trunk, who is Christ, our Savior, the beginning and the end of all things".
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As a member of the Lebanese Maronite Order and as a Saint of the Maronite rite, #SaintCharbel is an exemplar of the Maronite expression of Catholic holiness and values. As a #Saint of the Universal Church, St. Charbel Makhlouf’s example of virtue and intercessory power is available to Catholics of all backgrounds. Faithful to his Maronite spirituality, Saint Charbel became a Saint for the Universal Church.
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♡🍃 HAPPY FEAST DAY OF SAINT CHARBEL 🍃♡
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