Maronites celebrate new saint

The
Catholic Weekly
Online

Sydney
23 May 2004

Swans fly high with Vinnies Appeal

Bishops’ urgent call on detainees

Maronites celebrate new saint

Agencies divided over ‘best’ or ‘cruel’ Budget

It all comes down to love, Susie tells aid luncheon

Boys Town, AA, Grow and Fr Tom

Pitter patter: Why not support groups for dads, too?

Aust bishops commend new Mass translation

Cardinal at All Saints jubilee

Bishop to speak about ‘morning after’ pill

Prayer for end to drought

Cardinal’s Comment: Light years better, but system’s still tough

Dinner tribute to archbishop in Goulburn parish merger

Editorial: A just solution

Letters: We knelt in street

Conversation: Dr Brigid Vout, director of the Life Office - Spreading the message ‘with compassion’

A different Australia

Oilfield justice would be nice, too

Cardinal hears the view of young leaders

Speaking out!

St Patrick’s College proud of $5m makeover

Club has great tradition of service and facilities

Club proud supporter of parish, children

Vale – the ‘soldier’s padre’

Australia’s first trained social worker

Faith plays role for Alan

Girls will sing at St Peter’s

Eaglereach: ultimate wilderness experience

Parish Mass a vital part of Tadgh’s game plan

Maronites celebrate new saint

Australia’s Maronite community has celebrated last Sunday’s canonisation of the Lebanese monk Fr Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini, with prayers of thanksgiving and special Masses.

The Bishop of the Maronite Diocese of Australia, Bishop Ad Abikaram, said the community was overjoyed. Fr Nimatullah joins Sts Charbel and Rafqa as the three saints from Lebanon.

Fr Nimatullah was born in 1810 in Hardine, a Maronite village in the Lebanese mountains. He was always a man of prayer and led an exemplary monastic life, with a particular devotion to the Eucharist and to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Literature prepared for his canonisation says he was conspicuous for his virtues of obedience, chastity, poverty, faith, hope and charity. He had a total submission to divine providence. His cause for beatification was presented in 1926 at the same time as those of St Charbel and St Rafka.

Pope John Paul II beatified him on May 10, 1998, after recognition of a miracle in which Andre Najem was cured of a cancer of the blood.

Thank you for visiting the Catholic Weekly Online. To read this article in full, please subscribe to the print edition, or buy the paper for $1 at your local NSW Catholic church. Click here to email comments to the editor.