RAHI: “What is required is to abide by the constitution in spirit and text... 30 May 2020 Lebanon – Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Butros al-Rahi, indicated Saturday that there those who are demanding to change the system in the country, while what is required first and foremost is a change in behavior, and to stop breaching the system and violating it with parallel systems. “What is required is to abide by the constitution in spirit and text, and to cooperate in serving public institutions and freeing them from deadly quotas…What is required is to preserve the beauty of the formula of coexistence, loyalty to the nation, and cooperation in managing its affairs,” the Patriarch said, speaking in his Pentecost Mass sermon in Bkirki today. He added that by doing this, Lebanon will return to being a model state in this east, as the burdens of wrong practices and breaches of the constitution, the charter, the formula and the law are lifted off its shoulders. “Lebanon was founded to be a homeland for everyone, not for one religion alone, or for one sect alone…It is necessary to join forces to preserve, promote and develop this diversity in an oriental environment that adheres to monism,” al-Rahi said. “Because our state is a community of life, it has adopted a democratic system that supports all public freedoms, the foremost of which is freedom of belief, the language of sincere dialogue in searching for universal truth, and the best way to the common good,” he corroborated. “Here lies the problem of societies and states in general, and the problem of our Lebanese society and our country in particular. We have lost the language of kindness that brings us together…It is a language understood by all peoples of different languages, cultures, ethnicities and colors. It is the language that can connect the worst enemies,” the Patriarch underlined. “On the Day of Pentecost, we seek the presence of the Holy Spirit in all of us…so that we may be enlightened by the light of truth, and quenched by the water of life,” he concluded. |
