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This all-holy and most sweet name should be our uninterrupted task and study, and we should always carry it with us in our heart, in our intellect, and on our lips. In it and with it we should breathe and live, sleep and wake, move and eat and drink, and in short do everything.
The pelican was believed to pierce its own breast with its beak and feed its young of its blood. It became a symbol of Christ sacrificing himself for man – and because of this was frequently represented in Christian art.
O Lord Jesus, who sanctified Saint Charbel and helped him to carry his cross, give me the courage to bear life’s difficulties with patience and submission to your divine will through Saint Charbel’s intercession, to you is gratefulness forever. Amen.
"Acts of charity, almsgiving and all the external good works do not suppress the arrogance of the heart; but noetic meditation, the labor of repentance, contrition and humility - these humble the proud mind."
- Elder Joseph the Hesychast
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
We never speak to God without hearing a response, if the language of our soul is made with humility, suffering, and the longing for the good.
Elisabeth Leseur
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner