{"id":16089,"date":"2026-08-04T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/prayer-with-blessed-bishop-flavien-michel-melki\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:38:19","slug":"prayer-with-blessed-bishop-flavien-michel-melki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/en\/prayer-with-blessed-bishop-flavien-michel-melki\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer with Blessed Bishop Flavien Michel Melki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord Jesus, You who revealed to Your servant, Blessed Flavien Michel Melki, the faith of the Church, to which he devoted himself unreservedly, You who inspired him with the courage to proclaim, tirelessly, the Good News of the Gospel to Christians in southeastern Turkey, You who sustained him through persecutions and trials, for the unity of the Syriac Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We ask You, Lord Jesus, to accept the prayers of those who call upon You in the name of Your servant, Bishop Michel, who died for Your love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant the Christians of the East the grace to be united in the Faith and to form one day, as You have willed, \u201cone flock under the guidance of one shepherd.\u201d Strengthen them in unity and charity. Sustain them, Lord, through life\u2019s trials. Make them faithful to Your name, to Your Gospel, and to Your Church, following the example of our blessed one who proclaimed, \u201cI lay down my life for my sheep,\u201d for the glory of Your Holy Name, in the unity of the Father and the Holy Spirit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/priere-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15757\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Jesus, You who revealed to Your servant, Blessed Flavien Michel Melki, the faith of the Church, to which he devoted himself unreservedly, You who inspired him with the courage to proclaim, tirelessly, the Good News of the Gospel to Christians in southeastern Turkey, You who sustained him through persecutions and trials, for the unity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"thematique":[],"class_list":["post-16089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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