An excellent analogy! Bless you, BE, and prayers for VA and family.
Be careful NYer. Your Maronite priests might be tickling your ears with a number of lies, errors and fallacies.
I can give you the name of a Maronite priest that doesn't believe in Angels, the filioque, the real presence as understood by transubstantiation. (He said transubstantiation is wrong now.) Or the necessity of the Resurrection of the body.
And he's in good standing with both the diocese and the eparchy.