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(Depending on your internet connection, download time make take a few minutes - Please be patient)The Midnight Mass - December 25, 2006
الله ُ أزغر
The choir, featuring, intra altra, Myrna Yannieh and Mike Naber sang Mass & Christmas songs with heavenly voices...
As you remember, at dinner, Bishop Mansour introduced to me a new "thought provoking" slogan: "Allahoo Azghar". OK, I will not discuss the validity of its linguistic syntax because, simply put, it doesn't really matter!... The sheer power of its "noble message" totally justifies the "means"...
كما يَحِقُّ للشاعر ما لا يَحِقُّ لِغيرِه، كذَلِكَ يَحِقُّ لِسَماحَة المُطران ما لا يَحِقُّ لِغَيرِه
But, what exactly is this all about?...
All religions of God seem to agree on Allahoo Akbar. We all unite in believing that God is the Greatest, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Merciful, Almighty and Eternal...
But... this is only an "Incomplete Truth"... So, to make the Truth whole, the Bishop elaborates in his heartwarming sermon during Christmas Mass, one needs to delve inside the Miracle of Christianity itself... and travel to an ancient time when God made himself small!... the smallest of all (الأصغر)... He came to life, in human form, as a helpless newborn!...
For our sake and for our salvation, He descended from Heaven, and was born by way of immaculate conception, in humility and poverty, on a cold winter night, as a vulnerable human child of a human mother, the Virgin Mary.
One cannot help but admire and be in total awe of this pious Holy Man of God, Bishop Gregory Mansour. His genuine piety, body language, congeniality, good positive energy, levity, wisdom, and low key demeanor all drew a striking resemblance to another Holy Man of our Roman Catholic Church, the late Pope, Saint John Paul II, who at least to me, has always personified the true spirit of sainthood.
The hypnotic stance of Bishop Gregory's mesmerizing voice and showmanship just add that something to the mystique of that good Man of God!... I can clearly predict the making of a future Cardinal... and possibly a Pope in the years to come...
Right before Midnight Mass, and after a brief and well deserved period of rest, Bishop Gregory, before wearing his celebratory robe, came unnoticed to church, and in an unassuming gesture, prayed alone seeking guidance from Almighty God. The aura of piety and positive divine energy was unmistakable as I watched that Holy man of the Church... in his silent Conversation with God.
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