May God grant eternal rest to his faithful servant and priest, Fr. Naji Kiwan. Born in Freidis, Lebanon on December 12, 1972, he was the son of Jalil and Chalabieh (Haddad) Kiwan. Fr. Naji is predeceased by his mother Chalabieh, and survived by his father, Jalil, his brother Michel, and sisters Nisrine and Karine.
There is an upcoming Workshop led by Fr. Neemtallah Oneissy on Maronite Music. We hope you can encourage your choir members and interested parishioners to join in this Workshop.
Chorbishop Joseph Lahoud entered peacefully into eternal life on July 16, 2025, after a long life of service and dedication to the Church and her people. May God grant eternal rest to his faithful servant and priest.
Are you a young adult between the ages of 18 and finished high school, and 35? Are you looking to deepen your faith and connect with other like-minded young adults from your culture and faith? Join our MYA family September 19-21,2025 at the Sonesta Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, PA. The theme will focus on a journey into faith, purpose, and belonging. The conference will include meals, breakouts, adoration, confession, fellowship and more.
As you know Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is known worldwide as the largest of more than 165 *Caritas* organizations, and is the official outreach of American Catholics to the poor in over 117 countries. This year, once again, CRS has been at the forefront of the assistance to families facing all kinds of difficulties, and more recently assisting Caritas Ukraine to provide shelters, meals and safe transport to those affected by the conflict…
To continue serving our parishes and Eparchy, our Eparchial MYO Board is looking to expand! We are seeking skillsets to aid in our ministry work, and we need your help!
Below are a few roles we are looking to fill. We kindly ask for you to review these and consider members of your community (especially young adults) that may have these skills and would be a good fit to join our team!
If you have any recommendation or suggestions from your parish community, please email Sr. Therese Maria at myyaoffice@gmail.com.
This individual would be supporting the graphic and video marketing of the Board’s events and initiatives. This work would include, but is not limited to, designing event flyers, creating engaging social media posts, and producing video segments to engage our parishes and youth leaders.
This individual would be creating and maintaining the Eparchial MYO website. He/She would routinely update the website and relevant webpages with necessary information, as directed by the team, including but not limited to event flyers and formational resources. This individual would also be responsible for creating and maintaining registration systems for all MYO retreats and events.
This individual would play a vital role on the Board by supporting the creation of Spiritual content for use by our youth leaders and youth. He/She would help design youth ministry programs that can be implemented and used at our parishes. He/She would possess a sufficient spiritual formation and a solid understanding of Church traditions and teachings.
Dear Brother Priests, Deacons and Subdeacons, Consecrated Men and Women:Cir. 22.08
Our Maronite Sisters will be hosting a Great Lent Virtual Series from February 24 to March 17. See the attached flyer to view the four topics, speakers, and dates.
We are blessed to have our own clergy presenting these workshops via Zoom on Thursdays 8:00-9:00pm.
Please share the flyer with your parishioners and invite them to benefit from this excellent formation opportunity.
One may register through the following link, or through the attached flyer.
For any questions, please reach out to the sisters via their website maroniteservants.org or email sister@maroniteservants.org.
Thank you.
+Gregory
January 17, 2022 Cir. 20.05
Dear Brother Priests, Deacons/ Subdeacons, Consecrated Men and Women,
A blessed feast of Saint Anthony of the Desert!
We are pleased to announce that we have established a Maronite Young Adult (MYA) Eparchial Board to better strengthen and activate our local and regional MYA (ages 18-35). The first MYA Eparchial Conference that the Board is organizing will be held March 25-27th at Our Lady of the Cedars Church in Boston, MA. The goal is to bring our young adults together for prayer, social networking and inspiring presentations. Our theme will focus on Restoration in Christ, taking the Healing of the Paralytic as our point of reflection: “Arise and Walk.” (Mark 1:1-12)
The fee for the Conference is $100 (includes meals, transportation and speakers). About 40 rooms have been blocked at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston/Cambridge. There is also discounted parking available at $20/car/night. Please note: the hotel cost ($159/night plus taxes) is not included in the fee and each young adult will need to reserve their own room through this booking link. The booking deadline is March 4th.
Please find below the tentative schedule and flyer attached, which you can share in your announcements, bulletins and on your social media platforms. We appreciate your help in personally inviting and spreading the word with your young adults. This is going to be an amazing weekend for all those present and the Board is very excited to welcome young adults from all of our parishes. To register and to see the payment options for the Conference click on this link.
I look forward to being with our young adults for the weekend. I hope some of our clergy can join us and help with hearing confessions. Thank you for your ministry with our young adults.
+Gregory
Dear Beloved Women of the Eparchy, Cir. 22.03
Now, more than ever, our world needs authentic women's health and fertility care that are consistent with Church teaching. The primary way towards this is through continuing education for women, couples and medical professionals.
The Gianna Creighton Model Education Program Phase One, a modern, scientific and natural approach to family planning, will be held at the Notre Dame Retreat House in Canandaigua, NY in March of 2022 and April of 2022. Phase Two will be in November 2022.
I hope you will consider this invitation to learn more of this beautiful and faithful approach to the health and well-being of women. Please also share this with friends, family and coworkers.
Program, tuition and curriculum details are available online, and please see the flyer attached. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jamey Hutchinson (email below) .
Sincerely,
Bishop Gregory John Mansour, and the
Gianna Education Program Educators and Supervisors
Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral invites you to celebrate her 75th Anniversary of the First Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Cathedral.
Sunday, 24 November 2019
