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May 2018
From Father Andrew Bahhi: Living with Light in Your Heart

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” – John 3:19 Jesus says “I am the light of the light of the world.” Whoever believes in Jesus, the light will abide in him and will guide him, and at the end of his life, he will inherit the kingdom of God. He is the one who gives lightness, not to condemn us but save us. We can walk peacefully without having fear in the light. In......

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29
Apr 2018
From Father Andrew Bahhi: Listening and Understanding God’s Will

“My food is to do the will of him that sent me to finish his work.” – John 4:34 Jesus wanted to open our eyes as Christians and listen. Part of listening is to have a mission in your life. You are not only Christian to fill a number or sit in the church. You are to proclaim the good news to everyone. Jesus loves you. Open your heart to him. Do the will of God, the Father. To understand this will is not easy in our life. A lot of people......

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22
Apr 2018
From Father Andrew Bahhi: Living a Resurrection Life

The church calendar tells us to that we are still in the time of the Resurrection and to remind ourselves of the times that Jesus showed himself to the disciples. Here’s a story of one of those times. If any one of us are still doubting His Resurrection, sometimes the doubt is not that we don’t believe in His Resurrection, it is that we don’t believe in the power of His Resurrection. That we can apply it in our life as Christians. How come we have the Lord, and He rose from......

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15
Apr 2018
Lenny Cheringal Celebrates 90 Years in The Church

Leonard Chernigal turned 90 on March 16, and his life story mirrors the life of the Assyrian Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary, founded in West Hoboken (now Union City) about 13 years before his birth in 1928. The West Hoboken church was the first Assyrian Orthodox Church of Antioch built in the United States, taking its name from the church in Diyarbakır, Turkey, that many West Hoboken parishioners attended before they left the old country. In fact, the altar in the West Hoboken church was designed to look like the altar......

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