O my friends in heaven… how blessed you are!
– We have hatred… and you have love.
– We have envy… and you have sacrifice.
– We have lies… and you have forgiveness.
– We have ugliness… and you have beauty.
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O my friends in heaven… how blessed you are!
– We have constant gloom… and you have indescribable joy.
– We have sickness, pain, suffering and crosses… and you have none of them.
– We try to imagine what you have… and you tell us that what you have has never entered the human heart.
– We have all the darkness… and you have all the light.
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O my friends in heaven… how blessed you are!
– We think that if someone goes to you, it’s the end of the world,
and you say it’s the beginning of life.
– We say everything ends here with us… and you say everything begins here with us.
– We say it’s the end… and you say it’s the beginning.
– We say we have nothing… and you say we have everything.
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O my friends in heaven… how blessed you are!
– We have sickness… and you have the Physician.
– We have sinners… and you have the One who forgives.
– We have broken hearts… and you have the One who mends hearts.
– We have a heavy load… and you have the One who carries it.
– We have imperfection… and you have perfection.
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O my friends in heaven… how blessed you are!
– We have the Host… and you have Christ.
– We have the rosary… and you have our Mother the Virgin.
– We have the miracle… and you have the saints.
– We have the guardian angel… and you have all the angels.
– We are happy and proud that Charbel, Rafqa, Nimatullah, Yaacoub and Estephan are from among us… and you tell us they are waiting for us with you.
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O my friends in heaven… how blessed you are… how blessed… how blessed!
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Father Charles Hitti, Antonine
Saint Charbel Monastery, Melbourne
28/10/2015
