At Christmas, we received a card from France from the Abbey of Jouarre, where our foundress Mother Benedicta Duss started. We were all struck by the one line on the card from NABIL ANTAKI a doctor in Aleppo, Syria.
In 1986 with his wife Leyla and brother Georges Sabé, he founded the association “The Ear of God”, a project that would involve him in solidarity with the most needy people in his city.
In 2012, with the war, “The Ear of God” became the “Blue Marists”. Currently the group in Aleppo, Syria, has 150 volunteers who work helping the displaced and refugees of Aleppo, promoting and encouraging care and health service programs, labor, educational and social projects, and also distributing food packages and hygiene kits, distributing food plates and visiting the most vulnerable people.
“We
are not a charitable association, we are an association of solidarity. We want
to live with the poor and the displaced in order to alleviate their suffering
and to develop humanity and hope. This is our goal. To sow hope. To help people
to live and to stay in their country.”
It is to accept the risk when everything is assured
It is to propose a presence when everything is senseless
To Hope, is to live inhabited by love,
nourished by tenderness,
encouraged by peace
to Hope, is to advance when everything seems to be blocked
when everything seems to be finished
when all is condemned
It is to live at the limit, at the frontier, at the extreme
of an essential choice:
'do not fear anything,
I carry you in the palms of my hand
I make you my friend'
To hope,
is to say Magnificat
You are in my life
and I am in yours
an eternal poem of Love
It is Hope which helps us to exceed, to go beyond the gift and the sacrifice of
self, to love more than one could imagine, to believe with all our heart and
not only with all our reason. Hope
means that Jesus, who was incarnate and died on the cross for us, has risen and
He lives in us."
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