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Monday night we held a recital in Beirut, it was an evening of meditation and prayer, organized by the group of the Invisible Monastery and the hearing impaired. Lots of people attended.
As you can see on the pictures, we sang, and the hearing impaired performed beautiful choreographic dances on the hymns we were singing.
Carrying Christ in order to prepare for the Way of the Cross
Gabriel Sassi, hymn writer and extremely talented singer was conducting the choir,
Father Jean-Marie introducing Naji who give a testimony about his being physically challenged.
May is blind but she’s a hymn writer and sings just beautifully
evocational dances from the hearing impaired, so graciously performed
=World Day of Prayer =
An Ecumenical Movement of Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action
World Day of Prayer is a worldwide movement of Christian women of many traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year, and who, in many countries, have a continuing relationship in prayer and service. It’s always celebrated on March 7.
™ It is a movement initiated and carried out by women in more than 170 countries and regions.
™ It is a movement symbolized by an annual day of celebration – the first Friday of March – to which all people are welcome.
™ It is a movement which brings together women of various races, cultures and traditions in closer fellowship, understanding and action throughout the year.
This year the women of Guyana prepared the prayer services. I attended 2 of them, one at the NEST (Near East School of Theology) 
and at the Greek-Orthodox church of St. Mary’s 
The Middle East is on the front page of most newspapers every day. I thought you’d find this interesting. It’s an animated map of the Middle East - 5000 years in 90 seconds. This is an amazing, constantly changing map of the Middle East region, illustrating how various “empires” have risen and fallen in the past 5000 years-in just 90 seconds.Click on the link:
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