Posted on 01/12/2022 6:46:38 PM PST by marshmallow
Quaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Monastery of Mar Elian, located on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Quaryatayn, which in 2016 had been devastated and desecrated by jihadist militiamen, could soon return to being a place of prayer and peace for the Syrian Christians and also for their fellow Muslim destinies. It was announced with joy by Father Jacques Mourad, the monk of the community of Deir Mar Musa who was kidnapped in Mar Elian on May 21, 2015 by a commando of jihadists of the self-styled Islamic State, and lived long months of imprisonment, first in isolation and then together with more than 150 Christians of Qaryatayn, also taken hostage in the territories then conquered by the black Caliphate.
The rebirth of the Monastery of Mar Elian - reports Father Jacques in the message also sent to Fides - will be made possible thanks to an agreement between the Syrian-Catholic archieparchy of Homs, Hama and Nabk and the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa, founded by Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, the Roman Jesuit whose traces were lost on July 29, 2013, while he was in Raqqa, at that time the Syrian capital of Daesh.
In his message, Father Mourad asks everyone to pray so that at this moment the parishioners of Qaryatayn will be able to discern "God's will for the future of this important geographical area of Syria, our Country". Mar Elian's rebirth plan, outlined by the monk of Deir Mar Musa, initially envisages the replanting of vineyards and olive groves on the land around the monastery, together with the reconstruction of the surrounding walls and access doors. Then we will try to encourage the return to Qaryatayn of the Christians who lived there and who were forced to flee during the war, supporting........
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Difficult to live peacefully among the Devil’s contemplatives, those who only find rest plotting or carrying out evil.
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