Today, Metropolitan Silouan Moussi hosted, in the beautiful village of “Al-Qusaybeh”, the meeting of the brethren members of the Orthodox Youth Movement in Mount Lebanon (MJO) on the feast of their local chapter. The meeting began with the Divine Liturgy, during which the beloved brother Tony Abdo was ordained a deacon. The brethren in the ...
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The Children’s Joy
I had told you about my weakness in front of happy faces. I will remind you. I do not think that there is, in the whole world, more beautiful than a laughing child. Yesterday, I saw, on the road, a lad caught up in a fit of laughter! I tried to stay put. I wanted ...
Read moreAn Eloquent Lesson
After my ordination as a priest, Metropolitan George Khodr sent me to help one of the brethren priests in our Archdiocese. The first Divine Liturgy in which I participated with him was the Paschal Divine Liturgy. During the Liturgy, when the priest had read the Gospel, he turned to me and said, without preamble: “the ...
Read moreNathanael
You remember Nathanael the Apostle. We have read about him on the first Sunday of Great Lent (John 1:43-51). What is unique in the account of his call is that it differs from the call of the other apostles in that he alone is called by Jesus, through his friend Philip’s word. John the Evangelist ...
Read moreThe Disciples of Emmaus
This is the greatest story of Pascha in the Gospel of Luke (24:13-35). We know one of the two disciples, Cleopas. The other disciple is likely to have been the Evangelist Luke himself. The story begins on the road. Two disciples returning from Jerusalem to a faraway village were having a conversation about their disappointment. ...
Read moreThe Story of the Two Bishops
The commemoration of Christ’s passion and resurrection has eclipsed the memory of the kidnapping of Archbishops Boulos Yazigi, and Youhanna Ibrahim. Is there anything sweeter than being deemed worthy of getting eclipsed by the victory of the living Christ? I am not sugarcoating the crime of kidnapping, any kidnapping, its injustice and insanity. I am ...
Read moreWe Believe and Bear Witness
The highest revelation of the Truth of Pascha is the news of the empty tomb. What Paul said about the many appearances, that is, Jesus showing Himself alive to the apostles and to more than five hundred brethren (1 Corinthians 15:5-8), then what the Gospels said, follows the reality of the tomb from which Jesus ...
Read moreHoly and Great Saturday
From Pascha to Pascha The forty-day Holy Lent is our path to a new life given forth by Pascha. I know many brethren, who practice fasting with ecclesiastical attention, and when it ends, they feel great distress. How is this distress to be treated? How can it not turn, in us, into (our) remaining fixed ...
Read moreMy God, Why have You Forsaken Me?
This question is the opening of the twenty-first psalm. The exegetes held that, when Jesus said on the Cross, “My God, why have You forsaken Me!”, He was but praying this psalm. In the midst of pain, at the time of death, talking to God transcends everything that befalls us on earth, a testimony that ...
Read moreJesus the Servant
O Jesus, You called Yourself the Servant. You told Your disciples that, among them, You are the Servant . You wanted to set Yourself as an example for them and for us. You are really amazing! In everything, both heaven and earth see You being broken before Man, any Man, for the salvation of the ...
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