Some explanations on the photographs taken during the events surrounding the 26th Anniversary of the Phenomenon of Our Lady of Soufanieh

The photographs and the videos were taken by the team of “Samir Studio”: Ziad, Fawaz and Bassel Hanna, Youssef Jabour, Jean Nijmeh and their assistants.  

 

Sunday 11/23/2008

Solemn liturgy celebrated by the Patriarchal Vicar Msgr. Joseph Absi in the Cathedral of the Assumption.

Photograph 7: the famous singer George Wassouf was present at the mass.

 

Monday 11/24/2008

Ø       French Mass of Latin rite celebrated by father Joseph Besnier in the “House of the Blessed Virgin,” Soufanieh.

Photograph 1: The French father Joseph Besnier.

Ø       Religious Recital with Mrs. Joumana Mudawar

Music by Mr. Joseph Khalifeh from Lebanon in the Cathedral of the Assumption.

Photographs 7, 8: Mrs. Joumana Mudawar and Mr. Joseph Khalifeh.

Photograph 9: Joumana raises the new book on Soufanieh written by father Zahlaoui that Myrna had just offered her at the end of the recital.

Photograph 10: Joumana raises the icon of Our Lady of Soufanieh that Myrna had just offered her at the end of the recital.

 

Tuesday 11/25/2008

Ø       Father Bassilios Gergeos celebrates Mass in the “House of the Blessed Virgin,” Soufanieh.

Photograph 1: The father Bassilios Gergeos celebrates Mass on the occasion of his first priestly ordination.

Photograph 2: Myrna carries father Bassilios’s child, Romanos.

 

Ø       Mass of Latin rite in German celebrated by fathers

      Prof Dr. Andreas Resch and Prof Dr. Theodore Khoury

      in the “House of the Blessed Virgin”, Soufanieh.                                                           

Ø       Religious Recital inspired from the Messages of Soufanieh with the choir “Joyful Choir” (Damascus), in the Cathedral of the Assumption.


 

Wednesday 11/26/2008

Ø       Prayers in the “House of the Blessed Virgin,” Soufanieh with father Fadi Tabet (of the Lebanese Missionaries), followed by a candle-lit procession intended for peace and of the unity of hearts from the Garden of Soufanieh towards the Maronite Patriarchate (Saint Anthony’s Cathedral).

Photograph 7: Father Fadi Tabet

Photograph 10: Msgr. Massoud Massoud

Photograph 22: Prayers near the tree of the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the end of the procession in the garden and before leaving in the street.

Photographs 26, 27, 28: The procession in the street., Bab Touma., towards Saint Anthony’s Cathedral.

 

Ø       Maronite Mass celebrated by the new priest Tony Al-Khouly (Maronite Lebanese Order) in the Maronite Cathedral, with the blessing of His Excellency, Msgr. Samir Nassar.

Photograph 8: Msgr. Samir Nassar

 

 

 

Thursday 11/27/2008

Ø  Father Zahlaoui dedicated his new book on Soufanieh (3 volumes) in the Garden of Soufanieh during the Feast.

Photographs 16, 17, 18: In the middle, Mr. Mohammad Insaf Al Traboulsi (Abou Amjad) who printed the book.      

 

Ø  Coptic rite Mass celebrated by father Maurice Yanni in “the House of the Blessed Virgin”, Soufanieh.

Photograph 4: Father Maurice Yanni

Photograph 6: The group of the Egyptian pilgrims.