Tag: St Charbel

Coinciding with the feast of St Charbel’s canonisation, the show illuminates the site and tells the life, miracles and message of the saint and history of the Punchbowl parish projected along the entire façade of the Monastery, church and iconic belltower.

This is the edited text of Archbishop Anthony Fisher's Homily for Mass for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time and Installation of Relic of St Charbel Makhlouf, St Luke’s Parish, Revesby, 21 July 2024. 

More than 1000 Catholics welcomed a first-class relic of St Charbel all the way from Annaya, Lebanon to St Luke’s Revesby, all thanks to the efforts of one determined parishioner—and the help of grace.

Maronite Catholics take their name from St Maroun, a holy hermit who lived near Antioch, in Syria, and died in 410AD. Fiercely loyal to Our Lady and the Holy See, theirs is the only Eastern rite which has always been part of the Catholic church.

I have some Lebanese friends who are very excited about the arrival in Sydney of a replica of the tomb and of the body of St Charbel. I am not Lebanese myself and know nothing about this saint. What can you tell me about him?

In an historic witness to faith, thousands of Maronite Catholics have flocked to St Charbel’s Monastery and Parish in a grand procession to welcome the saint’s relics to their new home in Sydney.

To live in the world but not be of it is the aspiration of every saint and indeed every Christian. However, how does one achieve this without contradicting Christ?

The baptism of Simon Charbel this week was a sign of hope for a broken city.