In this life, do not expect salvation from the succession of days, but rather, anticipate it in the present day. Open your eyes well. God is here. This is the Everlasting New.
Read moreMonthly Archives: December 2022
A Great Good
On New Year’s Eve, many of us are ruled by trying customs, such as listening to fortune-tellers, or shooting in the air, getting drunk and dancing… As different as these customs are and their different contexts and meanings, I bring them together as a reminder that the mature among you know the illusion of them ...
Read moreBefore the End of the Year
Today I encouraged myself to suggest that you seek, before the end of the year, to find time for a session of frankness with one another, the husband with his wife; the father (or mother) with his son or his daughter; the brother with his brother… If you accept the suggestion, there remains that you ...
Read moreOn the Threshold of a New Year
Days pass for people in different ways. What I care about is the countenance of those who come to our day from God’s holiness. I have a friend who always reiterates to me, as if he were my mother and father: “give all your trust to the one you know prays”. You can realize the ...
Read moreA Realistic Testimony
The scholar Clement of Alexandria (+215) wrote that he knows Christians who, in order to help the poor, not only did they sell their possessions, but also sold themselves (as slaves). This is a testimony of Christ Who dwells in those who believe in Him, as God and Savior. No one like Him can convince ...
Read moreThe Synaxis in Honor of the Virgin
It is of the eloquence of the Church to insist, on more than one occasion, to elevate our humanity. Take, for instance, the feasts that extend for us the salvation of Christ the Lord. The Church celebrates the feast. Then, the next day, She calls us to celebrate the second character in it. Today, Mary ...
Read moreThe Nativity Feast
To celebrate Jesus’ Nativity today, is something that requires us to have perfect faith in that He has descended from His heaven to all of us, to each one of us, we whose sins have thrown us away from Him. The feast truly belongs to those who adhere to the acknowledgement that God has invaded ...
Read moreThe Gift of the Feast
The feast, my feast, consists in my keeping today, that is every day, that I have no existence far away from the Christ of God. This is what Jesus came to gift me with at His Nativity. My gift to Him is to accept His gift to me.
Read morePreaching in Christ
Communication media has given us the ability to extend our eyes to "distant pages". A few days ago, the "Google app" helped me translate into Arabic a sermon delivered by one of the brethren priests, years ago, on the occasion of the feast of Nativity. I was struck by several things in what he said, ...
Read moreLove and You Will Be at Peace
When, on the day Jesus was born, the angels said: “and on earth peace”, they meant Christ as a person, or as He is present in His poor brethren. I will repeat to you what happened on that glorious day. There were “shepherds keeping watch over their flock by night”. The angels appeared, sang, and ...
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