Saint Charbel Son of Lebanon Symbol of Martyrdom and Faith

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re you alive, sleeping, or buried in the dust? Science was stunned and could not reply! The Creator’s goodness is what His gifts can count. The soul is guided by the tormenting paths of righteousness. Longing shook you, and the buds were moist, the glow of light, for guidance or food and drink.

God sent you to a generation of starvation and suspicion.

An intoxicating night dream made the generation lose its senses. He obliterated the slander in his heart, the light of the book that guides if you move away from his rugged and foggy path! Be our shining guide in our nights of difficulty, not flesh and blood our adversary on the day of defeat.

The King of Darkness does not slacken, does not fear! You got a fortune that the people of reward did not get. The ladder of your asceticism has risen above the clouds, a world whose search you have found only the mirage. So its echoes ran through your neck, and you cried out: My Lord! I am for you: world and youth!

You said it from the heartbeat of steel and have a good time! Throw it to the top! End the path of torment. Charbel see what we have: a veil over our eyes… We are lost, my Lord, grant us repentance before reckoning!

Saint Charbel Son of Lebanon Symbol of Martyrdom and Faith

Oh, Saint Charbel

Son of Lebanon, a symbol of martyrdom and faith to you is our supplication and our hope for you. For your sake, pray to the Lord for safety that the sea of tenderness flows upon us. I have taken the utmost path to God.

And if your face is inclined towards it, be from there the guiding ray rugged mountain and long night, on earth hunger, tears, moaning screaming, and rocks have no nostalgia, hard-hearted ones last softly.

The path of faithful hope softens, on every lump a soul and a leaf. We ask God to wake up and walk the short way with a spirit of contrition and deep love, helping us when we are faced with adversity. The normal of time erupted in us, and from our chest, the roots of yearning took off peace replace strife.

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Prayer

O God, glorified by the sanctity of endless glory, who captivated the heart of Father Charbel and embraced the ascetic life, and gave him grace and the ability to be free from the world, with monastic virtues, chastity, obedience, and poverty, we ask you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he loved you and served you.

O Almighty God, who spread the power of the intercession of Saint Charbel with various miracles and graces, grant us, through his intercession, the grace that we seek (mention the graces you ask for), Amen. (Google Translate)

From the book The Resounding Silence