On August 22, 2021, the Chaldean diocese of Beirut received the icon of the Holy Family, which contains an munition from the house of Joseph and Mary in Nazareth, and traveled from the Holy Land to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq during the current year of St. Joseph. Monsignor Raphael Traboulsi celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the presence of the icon at ten o’clock, in which, he delivered a sermon about the true meanings of the visit. Afterward, Mrs. Suzy El Hajj, the responsible for the program of passing the icon to all Catholic dioceses in Lebanon, held a speech regarding the munition’s visits. After the mass, the act of consecration of the Middle East to the Holy Family, which was composed by His Beatitude Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, been recited, in addition to the procession of the Mary the Virgin, and everyone was blessed by the holy relics.
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