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SOYEZ ATTENTIF!" Nazareth. A cold, clear Christmas Day. During the lengthy Byzantine liturgy, Archbishop Maximos Hakim turns repeatedly to the faithful to invite them to "pay attention". Melchite Catholics in Israel must draw all their faith sustenance from the liturgy, but is Hakim warning against distraction simply because of its length? I suspect he repeats "Soyez attentif!" because, although the words of the rite might be understood in the same way a hundred times, the hundred and first time they can acquire a new resonance. Suddenly they illuminate the hearer's experience.
"Soyez attentif!" and eventually your ears, previously closed, open to a deeper ...