Fast and Pray for Peace in Iraq
A message from His Excellency Archbishop Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly, Patriarch of Babylon, quoted in 2 Days of Fasting and Prayer Urged for Iraq:
A message from His Excellency Archbishop Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly, Patriarch of Babylon, quoted in 2 Days of Fasting and Prayer Urged for Iraq:
- We have estranged ourselves from God by our deeds... [W]e do not obey his will, and we have moved away from piety and virtue, from forgiveness, and because of this the blood of so many brothers has been shed and so many children have remained orphans....
[W]e must return, repentant to God's house to do the will of our sovereign God.
To achieve this sublime objective... we invite all Iraqis, in and outside of Iraq, and all believers and people of good will, to prayer and fasting this coming Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th of April, so that the Lord will restore peace, tranquility and security to Iraq, country of our beloved Abraham.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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