Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel Fr FW

Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel Fr FW"A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists." Thus writes St. Charbel Makhlouf (1828 1898), a Maronite monk and priest from Lebanon whose reputation for sanctity spread widely during his life, and whose heavenly intercession has worked countless miracles after his death. St. Charbel's homilies and proverbs are reminiscent of the sayings of the Desert Fathers: simple, homespun, and direct, yet

the future is not only hope

for the day while their parents visit a winery

Born into a pagan world of gods and goddesses they blazed a new trail to follow the living God

celebrations

and Narnia needs them

into the Person of God the Son

Our bodies are symbolic

the Church celebrates the Mysteries of Christ's birth

encouragement

Catherine of Siena who changed the course of the Church and of European history

God's voice from the burning bush

condemned to forced labor in Cayenne