Author Topic: The Miraculous photo of St. Sharbel (Read 5102 times)

Alex · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2008, 01:11:52 AM »

(The Last Prayer of Saint Charbel before he died)

Father of truth,

Here is your Son,

The sacrifice in which you are well pleased.

Accept him for he died for me.

So through him I shall be pardoned.

Here is the offering. [The Holy Eucharist]

Take it from my hands

And so I shall be reconciled with you.

Remember not the sins that I have committed

In front of your Majesty.

Here is the blood which flowered on Golgotha

For my salvation and prays for me.

Out of consideration for this,

Accept my supplication.

I have committed many sins

But your mercy is great.

If you put them in the balance,

Your goodness will have more weight

Than the most mighty mountains.

Look not upon my sins,

But rather on what is offered for them,

For the offering and the sacrifice

Are even greater than the offences.

Because I have sinned,

Your beloved bore the nails and the spear.

His sufferings are enough to satisfy you.

By them I shall live.

Glory be to the Father who sent His Son for us.

Adoration be to the Son who has freed us and ensured our salvation.

Blessed be he who by his love has given life to all.

To him be the glory.

from the Maronite Liturgy.

Alex · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2008, 01:16:27 AM »

A St. Sharbel drawing based on his miraculous apparition picture.

Adesto · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2008, 03:23:56 AM »

JoanScholastica · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2008, 05:11:11 PM »

Interesting saints! They're very unfamiliar to me... Thanks for introducing me to these Asian saints!

BTW, I like the picture of St. Rafqa. Was that her habit as a nun?

Alex · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2008, 06:33:28 PM »

Alex · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2008, 06:51:32 PM »

Below are 2 photos of St. Rafqa.

The first is of St. Rafqa (top left) in the convent (her eyelids are closed and bruised because she is missing one eye and the disease has spread to the other eye). The other is of St. Rafqa when she was younger.

Adesto · « **Reply #8 on:** June 22, 2008, 11:51:06 AM »

Yes, Joan, that was her habit.