Brother Elias Haber, the new person in charge of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) branch in Hazmieh, conveyed to me the desire of the brethren in the Mount Lebanon Chapter to use the our Church hall on a date he mentioned to me. He did not wait for me to ask him about the occasion, ...
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Trust in God
Working with God requires us to trust Him more than ourselves, our knowledge, our effort, our intelligence, and our relationships... Some of us set, as a condition for this work, to understand God's purpose in everything. Trust is not compensation for understanding, but rather it is the most sublime understanding. At the onset of His ...
Read moreThe Lebanese
I will choose ten characteristics of the Lebanese, which I do not claim to always apply to him or to be restricted to him among the peoples of the earth. 1- If you visit the Lebanese, he feels offended when you decline his hospitality. 2- After God, his dignity counts first. 3- With regard to ...
Read moreThe Gift of Reconciliation
A friend of mine summoned me to accompany him to visit his son. He told me that “the bridegroom (that is, his son), whom you had crowned, broke up with his wife. He was angry at her because she had hurt him in front of friends who were visiting them. I want you to help ...
Read moreLove Your Enemies
This commandment is the pearl of the New Testament (Matthew 5:44). The true Christian is known by these two words, that is, by his ability to open his heart to any human being. A writer, whose work I was reading a few days ago, helped me to be practical in writing these lines for you. ...
Read moreBrother Tony Bitar
Those to whom God had given to spread the love of Jesus and His Church on earth are among the founders of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). This is not an addition to what took place on that blessed day, the 16th of March 1942, but rather it is the consummation of history to the ...
Read moreThe Precept of Precepts
When a friend of mine travels abroad, to pursue his studies, for example, if he asks for advice, I advise him to strengthen his friendship with “the righteous Joseph the All-Comely” (read his biography in Genesis 30…). This is the precept of precepts that we learn, in the company of the saints, to remain, wherever ...
Read moreOur Light to the Feast
In our preparation for the Savior’s Nativity, the Church seems to be telling us this constant thing: “he who emulates the Saints reaches the feast”. This is our heritage that the world, with its fakery and sham splendor..., is pushing us to deviate from. At a time when our country is seized by scarcity and ...
Read moreThe Perfection Seeker
He who seeks to be perfected in God, the closer he gets to realizing his endeavor, God shows him that there is something he still lacks (Mark 10:21). This is him, the one who seeks God every day, while he has a day.
Read moreAt the House of Friendship
My wife and I were at the house of two friends of ours. The mistress of the house told us that their parish priest always repeats these words to them: “if the devil is not able to bring us down into sin, he will distract us from our good in a thousand ways”. Then she ...
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