Welcome to Saint Rafqa Lebanon
This website welcomes everyone who would like to know and/or learn more about precious Lebanese Maronite Saints.
We ourselves are devotees of Saint Rafqa. We are not an organization nor a church.
We simply want to share her sainthood and love for Christ.
We hope that you will join us.
We look forward to having more devotees join our group and also share your knowledge and love for her.
A life of pain with no complain حياة الألم دون شكوى
Rafqa suffered for seventeen years as a blind paralytic. Only God knew how much she had to endure.
Her pain was continuous night and day, yet the other sisters never heard her murmuring or complaining.
She often told them that she thanked God for her sufferings, "...because I know that the sickness I have is for the good of my soul and His glory" and that "the sickness accepted with patience and thanksgiving purifies the soul as the fire purifies gold."
Blessed Saint Rafqa
Patron saint against bodily ills, sickness, and loss of parents.
Novena Prayer
Purity is the ultimate love.
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Saint Rafqa understood that the vow of purity released her of all human attachments and diverted her entire love towards Christ, her heavenly Groom.
He transfers these human feelings, desires, and self-indulgence toward a love of God and His Plan of Salvation on earth.
Purity is the summit of pure love gushing freely from a heart devoted to the Will of God.
Father Paul Sfeir
Saint Rafqa used to pray the prayer of St. Bernard to the shoulder wound every day, and used to tell all her sisters not to forget this wound! She called it the sixth wound, and prayed every day 6 Pater, Ave and Gloria, in honor of
Jesus’ Wounds. She is shown caring the cross because all her sufferings were united with Jesus’.
We ask you to intercede for all the sick, to fill our hearts with joy and love and to guide us to follow in your example.
Saint Rafqa used to insist on them being decent in church and used to tell them: “you have to understand very well that Jesus descends on the altar when the priest says the Holy words, at that time, bend your heads and contemplate in the Lord hidden in the Host and Wine”.
From the generous land of Lebanon, comes St. Rafqa, the Lebanese Maronite Nun (1832 - 1914). She appears to the Church and the world as a mark of time with the beginning of the 3rd millennium. Rafqa is a confirmation that her country, Lebanon, is more than just a country. It's a mission of civilization, love, and redemption for the Orient and the whole world.
The secret of her sainthood is that she embodied the image of Jesus, the Savior, with her weak body and simple life. Today more than ever, she appeals to the church to be a light for the world which is suffering from ignorance and loss and also to be a salt for the soil spoiled by evil.
من كلمات القديسة رفقا:" البطالة من الشيطان و الشغل عبادة "
"May Your will be done" Matthew 6:10
لتكون مشيئتك
Teacher of the Generations and Patron Saint of the sufferers
