Remembering the Beirut Blast through 'Freedom’s Anchor,' the award-winning memorial that I worked on a few years back and what it symbolizes in terms of hope, healing and anchoring the collective memory of Lebanon. 🇱🇧
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At the end of today’s General Audience, Pope Leo XIV mourned the death of Fr. Pierre El-Rahi, the Maronite parish priest killed in southern Lebanon while trying to help parishioners wounded in an attack, and renewed his appeal for peace in Iran and across the Middle East, especially for innocent civilians and children suffering the consequences of war.
« Peter is thus entrusted with the task of “loving more” and giving his life for the flock. The ministry of Peter is distinguished precisely by this self-sacrificing love, because the Church of Rome presides in charity and its true authority is the charity of Christ. » Leo XIV
“Emmaus becomes a symbol for our journey of faith:
the Scriptures and the Eucharist are the inseparable elements of Christian life.”
— Pope Benedict XVI, Homily, April 6, 2008