Abouna Faysal: an anonymous hero

  Written by: Xavier Abu Eid Father Faysal Hijazeen has left us. ‘Abouna Faysal’ (‘our father Faysal’), as he was affectionately known, was born in Amman in 1961 and spent most of his life in Palestine. In 1973, he joined the Latin Patriarchate’s Seminary in Beit...

Farewell, Father Faysal

  May the choirs of angels come to greet you. May they speed you to paradise. May the Lord enfold you in His mercy. May you find eternal life. The Lord is my light and my help; It is he who protects me from harm. The Lord is the strength of my days; Before whom...