LADIES GUILD
Written by Betty Najm
Maronite Conference At St Anthony –Danbury- CT
/ladies-guild.png)
In honor of the Jubilee Year of St. Maron, Father Anthony Salim held a Maronite conference on Saturday November 13 at St. Anthony on a beautiful sunny day with approximately Thirty Five parishioners. There was a wonderful range of ages, from early teens to young adults to young-at-heart seniors. Father Salim, pastor of St. Therese Maronite church in Brockton, Massachusetts, focused the conference on the life of St. Maron, the history of the Maronite church, its liturgy and the sacraments. An enlightening documentary was shown and handouts were distributed to show the importance of Antioch and Edessa as the area where the Maronite faith was founded. A lively discussion occurred over the twenty (20) Eastern Catholic Churches that make up about 2% or 20 million of the one billion Catholics on earth today. The Maronite Catholics belong to the Syro-Antiochene rite which is one of five Eastern traditions. The other four traditions are Alexandrian, Armenian, Chaldean and Byzantine.
