Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn

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Bishop Gregory Mansour stopped by and greeted the children at the Vocation Bible Camp led by the Maronite Servants of Christ the Light and hosted at St. Anthony of the Desert Church in Fall River, MA.

Children from St. Anthony of the Desert Church in Fall River, MA, St. Theresa Church in Brockton, MA, and Our Lady of Purgatory Church in New Bedford, MA are all enjoying this beautiful week-long summer camp!

“Go in peace, O Priest, May the Lord be your companion; may you find peace and clemency in the place where you are going.

May Christ who took you from us make us worthy to see you when you recieve the reward for your life and find joy with all the saints”

Book of Ginnazat, Farewell from the Church for the Clergy.

Bishop Gregory J. Mansour celebrates the Divine Liturgy at the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in North Jackson, OH! 🙏💙

Happy Feast of the Assumption.

Each October, the Eparchy has a Benefit Dinner to raise funds for educating seminarians, expanding ministries, and supporting parishes and missions in need in the Eparchy. This year our honorees will be Bassam and Mirna Ayoub, members of Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, Brooklyn, NY, and Doctor Charbel Ishak and Doctor Maria Ajaimy members of St. John Paul II Maronite Parish, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

The Annual Benefit Dinner will take place on Thursday, October 24, at The Union League Club.

Please visit http://www.stmaron.org/eparchial-benefit to register and make a donation.

Please support this important event – the Church needs your support this year more than ever.

For more information, please email [email protected] or call 718-237-9913.

See you soon!!

Yesterday, Most Reverend Mounir Khairallah, Bishop of the Eparchy of Batroun, elevated Rev. Elie Mikhael to the rank of Chorbishop. Chorbishop Mikhael will soon depart to assume his new office as Apostolic Administrator for the Eparchy of Our Lady of the Martyrs- Mexico. Please keep the new Chorbishop in your prayers as he begins his new mission.

2024 | Issue IV — The Maronite Voice Issue IV of The Maronite Voice 2024, the Intereparchial Magazine of the Maronite Church in the United States.

Lebanese Visionary, Patriarch Estephan Douaihy, Beatified on August 2nd | EWTN News Nightly.

Lebanese Visionary, Patriarch Estephan Douaihy, Beatified on August 2nd | EWTN News Nightly Known as the Lebanese visionary of the liturgy, Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy was a remarkable figure who overcame incredible obstacles in his life. At the y...

From the Desk of Bishop Gregory J. Mansour.

“If then my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and heal their land.” (2 Chr 7:14)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

At the opening Holy Hour of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress, on Wednesday July, 17, 2024, I prayed these very words, inviting tens of thousands in the stadium and thousands more watching virtually to join me in asking the Lord to pardon our sins and heal our land.

Then on Friday evening, July 19th, we all united around Our Eucharistic Lord again in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to make reparation for our sins. We humbled ourselves in the presence of Jesus, Our Lord and Savior. Recognizing that if one member of the Body of Christ suffers, we all suffer, we prayed together for healing and forgiveness. We were lead through a litany of healing and repentance in the Eucharist by Fr. Boniface Hicks, O.S.B. Many people told me that this moment of communal penance and reparation was a moment of great healing for them. It was amongst the most powerful experiences of grace for me personally during those holy days.

Just one week later, on July 26th in Paris, where the newly restored Cathedral of Notre Dame stands as an iconic reminder to our belief in the importance of the Mass, which makes spiritually present to us the Last Supper, nearly 1 billion men, women and children, in person and through live telecast, witnessed the public mockery of the Mass, the “source and summit of the Christian life” (LG, 11). During the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics, the famous DaVinci Masterpiece The Last Supper was depicted in heinous fashion, leaving us in such shock, sorrow and righteous anger that words cannot describe it.

Brothers and sisters, we know that what the enemy intends for evil, God uses for good. We know that “where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more” (Rom 5:20).

Throughout salvation history, the Lord and his prophets have called us—the people of God—to respond to the darkness of evil with the light that comes from the Lord. At the heart of this call are prayer and fasting. Jesus told us that some demons “can only come out through prayer [and through fasting]” (Mk 29:9). He modeled this for us when he spent 40 days in the desert before beginning his public ministry, praying and fasting, begging God the Father to prepare him for all that lay ahead—including his perfect gift of self through his death on the Cross.

We believe that the Last Supper is united with the death of Christ on the Cross and, together with the Resurrection, these events are all one in the Paschal Mystery. This passover, which begins at the Last Supper, is the most sacred moment in the life of Jesus. This is when Jesus offered his life for us so that we could share in his divine life forever.

Jesus experienced his Passion anew Friday night in Paris when his Last Supper was publicly defamed. As his living body, we are invited to enter into this moment of passion with him, this moment of public shame, mockery, and persecution. We do this through prayer and fasting. And our greatest prayer—in season and out of season—is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

As the Church throughout the world gathers tomorrow at the Lord’s Altar, let us do so with renewed zeal. Let us pray for healing and forgiveness for all those who participated in this mockery. Let us commit ourselves this week to greater prayer and fasting in reparation for this sin. Perhaps you could attend Mass once more this week or do an extra holy hour?

We may also be called upon to speak about this evil. Let us do so with love and charity, but also with firmness. France and the entire world are saved by the love poured out through the Mass, which came to us through the Last Supper. Inspired by the many martyrs who shed their blood to witness to the truth of the Mass, we will not stand aside and quietly abide as the world mocks our greatest gift from the Lord Jesus. Rather, through our prayer and fasting, we will ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen us with the virtue of fortitude so that we may preach Christ—our Lord and Savior, truly present in the Eucharist—for the Glory of God and the Salvation of Souls.

Let us, strengthened by Christ, be the Eucharistic Missionaries we are called to be.
+In Christ Jesus,

Most Rev. Andrew H. Cozzens, S.T.D., D.D.
Bishop of Crookston
Chairman of the Board of the National Eucharistic Congress

Let’s pray for Fr. Elie Mikhael.

Congratulations to our Beloved Pastor, Fr Elie Mikhael, on this Elevation to Chorbishop!!!

A message from the Maronite Patriarch Beshara Peter El Rai.

Dear Brother Priests, Deacons/Subdeacons, Consecrated Men and Women, and Lay Faithful,

Enclosed please find an itinerary, a registration form, and a flyer for our upcoming pilgrimage to Rome for the Massabki Brothers Canonization. A word document of these is also available. If you need them, please contact Alexa at our Chancery office.

This pilgrimage was put together by Fr. Antoine Kairouz at my request. Please note that the deadline to register is August 31st.

Please make this information known widely on your social media. If you have any questions, please contact Fr. Antoine directly by email at [email protected] or by phone at 724-732-4064.

+ Gregory

For more info visit our website:

https://www.stmaron.org/eparchial-news/pilgrimage-to-rome-for-the-massabki-brothers-canonization

Are you ready for the 2024 Eparchial Retreat - North?! Registration is now open to all parishes in our New England, Mid-Atlantic East, and Mid-Atlantic West regions. We are opening registration early to allow you time to sign-up and start your fundraising. Space is limited and registration will close on September 30th!

*America's Keswick - Whiting, NJ
-Retreat Check-In: Friday, October 25 at 4pm
-Retreat Check-Out: Sunday, October 27 at 3pm

Don't miss out...Register today at www.myoeparchystmaron.org!

The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Elie Mikhael, until now parish priest of the Maronite parish of Saint Anthony in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States of America, as apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the eparchy of Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Libano en México of the Maronites, Mexico.

To our esteemed brothers, the patriarchs, bishops, general superiors, male and female, regional superiors, members of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon.

As a result of our meeting with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Vatican, we have decided to issue this appeal: Prayers will be held in all our churches in Lebanon, the patriarchal territories, and diaspora countries on the coming Saturday and Sunday, June 29 and 30, for the end of the war in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and for the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in these regions.

+ Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
Patriarch of Antioch and All the East

Happy 40th anniversary to Monsignor Jim Root! Thank you for all you’ve done for the Maronite Church!

The Maronite Bishops attending the National MYO conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 🙏🏻

A special life-changing event for women with the host of the "Women of Grace" television and radio programs on EWTN.

Registration is open!
Be sure to register at:

www.Familyandsanctityoflife.org