Father Chacour Offers a ‘Christmas Crying Letter’ to all his U.S. supporters

Please take a moment to read the most recent letter from Father Elias Chacour, to hear the pain in his heart and voice, as tragedy continues to unfold in his homeland.

An excerpt:

Ibillin, 22 November 2023

Dear Essrea and Pilgrims of Ibillin,

From MEEI we send you this message unlike other messages in the past. We feel emotionally a great need to share with you some of our reality without entering into details or siding with anyone against the other, since we attached a vital importance for our togetherness.

We are surviving physically and we are deeply wounded emotionally and spiritually. Indeed we don’t understand the diabolic game that is unfolding in our beautiful country. That country which was chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ, for his incarnation. It’s no secret to anyone that there is a satanic game and a competition between different parties who is capable of inflicting more victims on the other side, and meanwhile we shed tears for every child of God, be he a Jew or Palestinian, who falls down victim of this war which is most unjust. We believe that all wars are unjust, and they are rooted in evil inclination of the leaders of nations who believe that might is right, and whatever they wish, they can have it with their might regardless of their right.

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Yours,

 

 

Abuna Elias Chacour
Archbishop Emeritus of Galilee

See Abuna Chacour’s full Christmas Crying Letter at this link (pdf)