Recital at the end of the Marian month in the Syriac Catholic Diocese of Homs, Hama and Nabek

Let your speech be a recitation of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and praise the Lord from the bottom of your heart.”

In this spirit, singer Sanaa Barakat and her band performed Recital at the end of the Marian month in the courtyard of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Al-Hamidiyah, under the patronage of Bishop Mar Yulian Yacoub Murad, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Homs, Hama, Nabek and its environs, and in the presence of a group of priests and believers, during which  religious and patriotic hymns in the Arabic and Syriac languages.

A word of thanks was given by Bishop Murad at the conclusion of the recital, in which he said:

In the beginning, music was the rhythm of love beating in God’s heart. The Creator played the song of love, and there was creation, existence, and beauty! Today, sacred music has transported us to heights, awakening the strings of our hearts just as it awakened the strings of Saint Ephrem the Syrian’s lyre, in praise of the Virgin Mary. Today, singer Sanaa Barakat carried us with her angelic voice to the depth of our Christian faith. The heavenly angelic choirs mixed with the melodies of the Church of Christ on earth, praising and glorifying God.

Today, Sanaa with her warm voice quenched our thirsty souls for the word of life, so we prayed, sang, and chanted with you and Mary, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”
Mary knew deeply the secret of divine mercy, and she brought to people divine love that finds its best expression in caring for and listening to the suffering, the poor, the prisoners, the blind, the oppressed, and the sinners. As for you, Sanaa, you accepted God’s gift and carried it faithfully: a message of love, peace, faith, hope and hope since childhood, laden with the fragrance of originality and the velvety of the material, spreading your talent, feeling and sophistication in your Syriac church from which you set out to Syria and the world by reviving religious, artistic , social and  patriotic celebrations.

As for the music that accompanied you, with these ambitious young people, it was characterized by the nature of holiness, and it spoke to us in the language of all humanity, which has no equivalent in language in terms of understanding between human beings, for sacred music is the speech of the hearts. Instruments were a means of conveying the good news, the new evangelization, and tasting the sweetness and beauty of God, so our hearts echoed with Saint Yaqoub Al-Sarouji : “ The singing of your anthem astonished me, O Son of God. Release it in me with sweet, pure melodies, so that it may resound for you in our congregation!”
Thank you for giving them deep spirituality from the spring of the water of life, and embodying it with sacred music, which is like a lamp that expels the darkness of the soul, illuminates the heart, and reveals its depths, so that together we glorify the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.