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Audi: we pray God keeps Lebanon from every aggressor and binds Lebanese to their army
In his Sunday homily at St George Cathedral, the Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Beirut also warned that homes chasing social media fame are failing to raise children on values.
Metropolitan Elias Audi, head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut, presided over Sunday Mass at St George Cathedral in the capital and devoted his homily to two themes, the family and the nation, LBCI and the National News Agency reported.
The country and the world, he said, need homes that teach children compassion and the use of their knowledge and talents to serve life rather than to exploit the weakness of others. He criticised mothers who, in his words, seek to appear as stars on social media at the expense of raising their children on values, and said schools have filled with pupils lacking the most basic manners and discipline.
Audi closed with a prayer that "the Lord preserve Lebanon and protect it from every aggressor against its land, sovereignty, freedom and people," and that the Lebanese become more attached to their land, their sovereignty and their army, and more committed to their identity, unity and history, so that they deserve the future.
The homily came on the same morning that Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai told worshippers at Bkerke that Lebanon cannot bear another war and that the decision of war and peace belongs to the state alone.
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