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Bonjour Lather, Je parle un peu de Français! Well, I'm sorry actually... I don't speak much French, although most of the Greque Catholique people in my parish do speak French. My Greek and Italian has unfortunately, gotten the better of me.  Anyways, I'm a student as well... studying Software Engineering. Hope to see you post here more. God bless! Christos Anesti!
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Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen!
Welcome, Lather, glad to have you.
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Haqqan qaam!
Although I`m coming late, here is your melkite brother from Brazil! By the way, thanks, Neil, for remembering me. You`re a very good "indexator"! Ah, and where is my private answer, please? [:)]
I`m very happy with a new melkite member, Lather! My maternal grandmother is from Maalouf`s family of Zahle and my grandfather is from Gebara`s, Damascus(they`re cousins). From which region of Beirut are you, and from which parish? I know a melkite guy from Beirut, Elie Yacoub, and I have a relative there in Beirut that frequents a church in Achrafieh.
A curiosity: here in Brazil there`re relatives of your Archbishop Sayedna Youssef Kallas.
Ps.: Your inbox of private messages are full!
Ps.2: Je parle Français, mais trop peu d`Arabic.
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Philippe we have a family of Maaloufs in our parish.
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Philippe we have a family of Maaloufs in our parish. LOL - every Melkite parish (exc maybe St Ignatios of Antioch in Augusta, GA - 'the home of the blue-Eyed Melkites', so-called) is virtually guaranteed to have, at the very least, a Maloof, a Haddad, and a Habib family (spellings optional) . Likewise, every Antiochian parish should have the same - and, of course, those of each name in each parish will be related to those of that name in the other. It's an unwritten law. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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By the way, thanks, Neil, for remembering me. You`re a very good "indexator"! Ah, and where is my private answer, please? [:)] How could (and why would) I forget you? You can't imagine how pleased I am at the diverse body of Melkites who post here (there are some others whom I didn't list because it's been a long time since I've seen them). We do need a European representative though - perhaps someone from the parish in Paris  (I haven't forgot your PM - honest) My maternal grandmother is from Maalouf`s family of Zahle The founding families of the Cathedral parish here in the US were virtually all from Zahle or the villages surrounding it. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Hmm We do need a European representative though - perhaps someone from the parish in Paris and what about the UK ? Can't help there I fear
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