Light a candle for Mgr. Rahho, click on the image. Thank you."Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. "Be on your guard against men; they will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues. On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. "A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household! (Mt 10, 16,25)
These are Matthew's words read yesterday in the church of Mar Qardagh in Erbil where Father Rayan P. Atto led the prayers and the Via Crucis entirely dedicated to the memory of Monsignor Faraj Paulus Rahho. A Baghdadhope the testimony of words that the young priest dedicated to Msgr. Rahho, but especially to all Iraqi Christians.
"We are experiencing hard times that ripen our faith, so strong to make us give our own life for Christ. We are martyrs and witnesses, and if we wonder why we are living such tragic moments, the answer is because God loves us, because through us He spreads in the world the message of faith and mission. A message that we want to give to everyone, especially to young people, the same young people with whom we wanted to be spiritually united yesterday in the occasion of their meeting in Rome with the Holy Father whom we, young Iraqi Christians youth, hope to meet to bring him our testimony of faith."
