Letter to the Friends of Deir Mar Musa Christmas 2013

• Sister Houda Fadoul
  • The Community of Mar Musa and Mar Elian
  • The Community in Sulaymanieh
  • What we have achieved this year
    • In Mar Elian :
    • In Mar Musa
  • How do we help others?
  • Next year
  • The lay people linked to us
  • Practical things
  • Conclusive thanks

Sister Houda Fadoul

Every time I try to write these lines to you, our dear friends, I am confused, because the words betray me and do not help me to convey the bitterness that is in my heart: The confusion that occupies my mind because of the pain and sadness for what we experience in our dear country, Syria. The love of homeland in me is strong and deep, which opens a wound in my heart and I find no remedy for this other than prayer, as many Syrian do these days.

A thought:

11 October it was fifty years that the Second Vatican Council began. It was the effort of the Church of the twentieth century to consider its past, its present situation and project itself into the future. Exactly because of these three tasks Pope John XXIII called it a pastoral Council. It was however one of the first times in the history of Christianity that the Church reflected in this depth about its own mystery. In this spirit the Church entered 11 October the Year of Faith.