I would like to share with you some ideas and reflections and thoughts that I have in my mind. First of all, as you know and follow the news, the situation is escalated in a dramatic way. We are absolutely forbidden to use the roads, a tighter siege…

Dear brothers and sisters,

I would like to share with you some ideas and reflections and thoughts that I have in my mind.  First of all, as you know and follow the news, the situation is escalated in a dramatic way.  We are absolutely forbidden to use the roads, a tighter siege…

I wish I just could find the words to express and its not a question of a foreign language…

Lately I was trying not to listen or watch the news, may be to hide my head in the sand, as a way to focus more and stay away from all these political and media presentations.. I’m trying to be more and more with my brothers and sisters in the parish to share, listen, and pray with them…  However, I feel really helpless.  If Our lord went through 14 stations to get risen I think we are going through hundreds of thousands of painful stations to get risen and no body knows when we will finish this via dolorosa…I’m telling the people to keep and live the hope and faith, but sometimes I doubt deeply… and keep asking why and when????

The suffering and the pain are such a great blessing, a strong experience and lesson to live and to learn but could you tell me until when that I can wait and survive…  I do believe that the cross that God sent for us is the same size of our shoulders but until when can we carry it…

When I was 12 years old, one of our neighbors went to jail for some reason, and at that time I wondered what and how he felt there.  Now I know what’s a prison, not because some one told me but because I feel and live in a big prison.

The people think that I know many things and I can handle it, or at least know the answers for all these questions, can anyone of you dare and tell me the answers…

IF YOU ARE CHRISTIAN AND BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE YOU AND ME, WE SHOULD BELIEVE IN MIRACLES…  SO PLEASE THIS IS WHAT WE NEED AND WHAT WE WANT, A VERY VERY BIG MIRACLE CALLED “PEACE AND JUSTICE” IN THE LAND OF ABSENT PEACE,PALESTINE,,, PRAY WITH ME HARDER WITH MORE MORTIFIACTIONS AND FASTING…

 

Yours
Abouna Iyad

 

Fr. Iyad Twal
Our Lady Queen Of Peace Roman Catholic Church
P.O. Box 9
Birzeit
Tel : 02- 2810734
Fax : 02- 2810282