Homage and prayers
To His Holiness,
The Patriarch
With folded hands,
with tears
To The Good
Shepherd of Antioch.
The successor of
St. Peter
The rock to build
the church
Towards the Christ,
the Blessed Savior
Towards the Holy Spirit
He did search.
The keys of the
kingdom of heaven
Are vested on Him,
the Good Samaritan
The Powerful
Intellect through His sermon
Victorious to free
all from demon.
Homage and prayers,
the Patriarch
To His Holiness of
Antioch.
May the gates of
paradise
Be opened with
grace,
May the saints and
holy arch-angels
Marshal with
lighted candles.
May the Holy Soul rest
in right
Of The Father, The
Son and The Holy Spirit.
Pray for us, the
Good Shepherd
His holiness,
Ignatius Zakka 1 Iwas
When turmoil and
violence is heard
And for everyone
who is in chaos.
Pray for us, the
Good Samaritan
The Patriarch, the
Holy Pilgrim
When we pass thorns
of persecution
Till we reach the
New Jerusalem.