From the Maronite Patriarchate's summer headquarters in Diman, Maronite Patriarch Rai denounced the loss of a sense of duty and mission among Lebanon's leaders in his Sunday homily. “The country is a mission, and the Lebanese are sent to their homeland to participate, not to withdraw,” he declared.
The Patriarch pointed to the forgetfulness of some leaders that “responsibility is a service and a sacrifice, not a business or a market.” He also warned that Lebanon's crisis is not just economic or social, but moral and existential, marked by a loss of a sense of mission.
“When politics loses its spirit of service, it becomes a struggle of interests,” he added, calling for a return to “the values on which Lebanon was founded: love, dignity, coexistence, openness and creativity.”
Calling on citizens and leaders alike to adopt a “missionary” attitude, he insisted, “Lebanon can only rise again if its children shoulder their responsibilities with a missionary spirit, in all fields: politics, economics, education, justice...”
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