When a priest consecrates, or makes holy, the bread and wine during a Maronite Rite Mass, he speaks in Aramaic, the spoken language of Jesus Christ. Hearing the words Jesus is said to have used when ...

SPRINGFIELD - In his homily for the opening Mass of the nine-day presentation of the relic of St. Anthony, from the Franciscan basilica, in Padua, Italy, at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Maronite rite, ...

SPRINGFIELD - The more than 400 families who worship at St. Anthony Catholic Church Maronite Rite are a diverse ethnic group, but its founders were of Lebanese heritage. This heritage will be honored ...

WILKES-BARRE — As long-time parishioners Letetia Capristo and Linda Joseph, both of Wilkes-Barre, talked about the healing Mass that was about to begin at St. Anthony/St. George Maronite Catholic ...

What can the Maronite Catholic Church offer to aid the U.S. bishops’ Eucharistic Revival that is currently underway in the United States? The two Maronite bishops in the United States say the answer ...

Maliak and Anthony Khoudary sing during a recent Mass at St. Anthony’s Church in Wilkes-Barre. There are 315 families 315 registered within the St. Anthony’s –St. George’s parish community. Monsignor ...

Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, celebrated Mass at the Cathedral of St. George on Tuesday marking the 1600th anniversary of the death of St. Maron, father of ...

The Rev. Elias Abi-Sarkis came to Tulsa four years ago to build a church for Oklahoma's only congregation of Maronites, Eastern Rite Catholics based in Lebanon. At midnight on Christmas Eve, the ...

A rainbow arched over the building site of the future Sacred Heart Maronite Monastery in Castle Rock, Wash., as the monks of the Order of Jesus, Mary and Joseph surveyed the land. The laypeople ...