Beirut, Lebanon, Jun 22, 2017 / 12:07 pm ( CNA/ EWTN News ).- The synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church elected on Wednesday Archbishop Youssef Absi as the Church's new patriarch, who received ecclesiastical communion from Pope Francis the following day. Elected June 21, Patriarch Absi, 71, succeeds Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, who retired May 6 at the age of 83. The new patriarch was born in Damascus in 1946. He was ordained a priest of the Missionary Society of St. Paul in 1973. He became superior general of the society in 1999, and two years later was appointed curial bishop of the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch. In 2007, he was appointed the Patriarchal Vicar of of the Melkite Archdiocese of Damascus. The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite, and it consists of some 1.5 million members. It is based in Syria and Lebanon, and most of its eparchies are in the Arab world. It also has structures to serve the Melkite diaspora in Australia, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. The Melkite Church traces its roots to the earliest days of Christianity, when Sts. Peter and Paul first evangelized the peoples of Syria, where followers of Christ were first called “Christians.” During the 2010 Synod on the Middle East, Patriarch Absi lamented the strife among the Eastern Catholic Churches, calling the struggle a “fount of impairment and false testimony,” according to Vatican Insider . “The Christians of the East,” he said, “are all on the same boat, and confront the same struggle. They cannot be disinterested each in the other.” The new patriarch holds licentiates in philosophy and theology, and a doctorate in musical sciences and Byzantine hymnography from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon. He has taught philosophy, Greek, and musicology at the university level. Pope Francis wrote to Patriarch Absi the day after his election, congratulating him and granting him ecclesiastical communion. Francis also noted the tribulation facing Christians in the region. “The election of Your Beatitude comes at the time of a delicate situation for the venerable Greco-Melkite Church and when many Christian communities in the Middle East are called to bear witness in a special way to their faith in the dead and risen Christ,” the Roman Pontiff said. “In this particularly difficult time, Pastors are called upon to manifest communion, unity, closeness, solidarity and transparency before the suffering people of God.” “I am certain that your Beatitude, in fraternal harmony with all the Synod Fathers, will know, in all evangelical wisdom, how to be not only 'Pater et Caput' in the service of the faithful of the Greco-Melkite Church, but also a faithful and authentic witness to the Risen One.”

“The election of Your Beatitude comes at the time of a delicate situation for the venerable Greco-Melkite Church and when many Christian communities in the Middle East are called to bear witness in a special way to their faith in the dead and risen Christ,”

Immediately I saw the word beautitude, I just have to google it and this is what I discovered:

These "modern Beatitudes" were proposed by Pope Francis during his visit to Sweden on All Saints Day 2016:[17]

"Blessed are those who remain faithful while enduring evils inflicted on them by others and forgive them from their heart."
"Blessed are those who look into the eyes of the abandoned and marginalized and show them their closeness."
"Blessed are those who see God in every person and strive to make others also discover him."
"Blessed are those who protect and care for our common home."
"Blessed are those who renounce their own comfort in order to help others."
"Blessed are those who pray and work for full communion between Christians.

My goodness! The Pope is attempting to rewrite the Bible. Who the heck is he?

luvmijeje:


Immediately I saw the word beautitude, I just have to google it and this is what I discovered:


My goodness! The Pope is attempting to rewrite the Bible. Who the heck is he?

that isn't a fake news but it has nothing to do with rewriting the bible. the beautitude of the Bible can't be changed it is there for everlasting in fact the beatitudes were read at the mass above-mentioned. What the Pope did was propose new way Christians must continue to live their calling.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/sweden-francis-proposes-six-new-beatitudes-modern-era

The title his beatitude is a spoken style for a patriarch, just as his grace is the spoken style for am archbishop and your excellency is the style for bishops even governors and presidents.
Patriarchs
of Eastern Catholic Churches
who are also cardinals may be
addressed as " His Eminence" or
by the style particular to Eastern Catholic
patriarchs, His Beatitude.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Eminence

Ubenedictus:
that is a fake new it is satire. the beautitude of the Bible can't be changed it is there for everlasting.

The title his beatitude is a spoken style for a patriarch, just as his grace is the spoken style for am archbishop and your excellency is the style for bishops even governors and presidents.

Bros, the only thing I'm going to say to you as a fellow Christian. Be on the alert.

Be familiar with your Bible. Be open minded. Strictly follow the teaching of Christ. Finally, always have it at back of your mind that doctrines are the rules of men and not the Law of God.

luvmijeje:


Bros, the only thing I'm going to say to you as a fellow Christian. Be on the alert.

Be familiar with your Bible. Be open minded. Strictly follow the teaching of Christ. Finally, always have it at back of your mind that doctrines are the rules of men and not the Law of God.

I have edited my previous post, I was mistaken in some parts.

Actually Doctrine in my church are the teaching of CHRIST through the apostles. Not laws of men.

CHRIST was born., he lived taught and died to set me free he rose again and is sitted at the right hand of the Father, these are Doctrine and they are not laws of men.


If the doctrines in your church are all laws of men then you need to get out of that church.

Ubenedictus:
I have edited my previous post, I was mistaken in some parts.

Actually Doctrine in my church are the teaching of CHRIST through the apostles. Not laws of men.

CHRIST was born., he lived taught and died to set me free he rose again and is sitted at the right hand of the Father, these are Doctrine and they are not laws of men.


If the doctrines in your church are all laws of men then you need to get out of that church.

Okayyyyy.

You can deceive everyone but can't deceive yourself. While you're at it, ensure to read the history of your church.

luvmijeje:


Okayyyyy.

You can deceive everyone but can't deceive yourself. While you're at it, ensure to read the history of your church.

well I have extensively read the history of my church from 33AD till date, Is there any thing you would like to point out?