I watched on “Télé Lumière” parts of Father Elias Karam’s program “Parishes Bearing Witness” that sheds a light on parishes from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon. I will not dwell on questions that I am unable to answer. Why the Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon exclusively? Is this a prelude to other episodes about ...
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The Voice of God
Whatever knowledge we have about God, does not benefit us in anything if it does not give us to hear His voice calling us to worship Him with the community of brethren who are formed by obeying Him. This is the homeland of perfect knowledge.
Read moreServing the Broken
Every time you get out of your house, remember that there is a broken heart waiting for you outside or at your destination. No night comes to an end without people getting broken. By night, I do not mean its hours. There are people among us whose days are nights. If you are willing to ...
Read moreRepenting Sinners
My friend Elias Baz told me that the brethren in “The Renewal in the Holy Spirit Movement” do not bring a brother to a leadership position before the community leaders meet with him, and discuss with him about what they see as new and as old in him. This piece of news reveals two major ...
Read moreThe Enduring Lebanon
The day before yesterday, we bid farewell to my daughter, who had spent three days among us. She said that this visit is a compensation for the Christmas visit that she will spend, God willing, at the house of her older brother, who was pushed out of Lebanon, along with his family, by the Beirut ...
Read moreTo the Feast
I love, in this “little fast”, the Nativity fast, that it is great in its depicting the requisites of this forty-day period of the liturgical year, that is, in its revealing publicly the insistence of the Church that we implant, “in our flesh and blood”, to be in need of the coming Jesus. Take heed ...
Read moreThe Nativity Fast
Tomorrow, in our Church, begins another forty-day fast that is named after the feast of Nativity. If compared to Great Lent, this fast will be considered lightened in form, that is, in spite of our abstinence, in it, from meat and its by-products, we are allowed to eat fish, except on Wednesdays and Fridays. Are ...
Read moreDissension from the Word
When they explain the Apostle Paul’s words: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7), some people dissent from God’s intent. They say that “the true believer” is inevitably, that is, always, stronger than any “psychological disorder”! You do not ...
Read moreWords of Love
In order for the words about God and about life with Him to cut to the hearts of people, it is needful that they see us sleeping and rising on God’s love. No words are truer than love.
Read moreThe Arab Reading Challenge
I am writing today about this initiative which was launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in the year 2015. The aim of this initiative is to motivate students, in the schools of the Arab world, to increase their awareness of their language and to concern themselves over reading which develops culture… This challenge ...
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