"Everyone knows with what love the Eastern Christians
celebrate the sacred liturgy, especially the Eucharistic mystery, source of the Church's
life and pledge of future glory. In this mystery the faithful, united with their
bishops, have access to God the Father through the Son, the Word made flesh who suffered
and was glorified, in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And so, made 'sharers of
the divine nature'(2Pt 1:4) they enter into communion with the Most Holy Trinity."1
The
Maronites are an Eastern Rite of Catholicism in full communion with Rome.
We
maintain the traditions and the "spiritual riches of the Eastern Fathers which lift
up the whole man to the contemplation of the divine mysteries."1
1Second Vatican Council, Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis
Redintegratio, 15.
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