Born into the Latin Rite of The Catholic Church, me and my wife have been blessed to discover and join a Maronite Parish not far from our house. The Divine Liturgy is quite different than The Latin Rite but it is every bit as Catholic and especially beautiful in its repetitious confession of sin and pleas for mercy. The Priest is phenomenal and he is holy and solicitous as are the parishioners of the Parish. Today, we had a substitute priest and he told us about this shrine. Lord have mercy, such a beautiful and peaceful place.
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen
