Title: SAINT CHARBEL SAINT FROM LEBANON
Description: For Saint Charbel, humanity is the spirit of God on earth. This spirit walks among the nations, preaching love, revealing the meaning of life, but receives only hatred and laughter. It is this same spirit that Christ heard and followed, causing his own crucifixion. In his prayers, Saint Charbel loved the enemies of Lebanon, his homeland, because they are the children of the universal spirit. Take of my people what you will, do with me what you will, shed my blood, the blood of my people, and burn my body; you can never molest my soul, nor kill it. Chain the hands and feet of my countrymen and followers, and throw them into the dark prisons; you can never chain their thoughts, for they are as free as  the wind that runs in an unlimited and immeasurable space. But Saint Charbel proclaimed the shadows of past centuries that walked through the valleys and mountains of Lebanon, and the souls of the kings and prophets who hovered on their hills, pointing to the glories of the Phoenicians, the prophets who came out of this land blessed by Christ and where He took refuge, when he felt tired of the noise of the man, of his laments and sighs, of the putrid smells of the alleyways that spread the germs of disease, and, like tiny invisible arrows, they hurt his ear and poison the air.
I also emphasize the universal character of the personality of a servant of God in whom extraordinary gifts and virtues are gathered.
Subjects: Religion & Spirituality
Places: São Paulo (Brazil)
People: Georges Raad
Time periods: 2010-2025