Two days ago, I was appalled by a shooting that took place at dawn after an oral dispute, screaming and cursing, in a store (…) in Lebanon. A man was injured; I hope he is safe. I do not know any of the people I saw in a video that was published by a media ...
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Naï
Welcome to our home, Naï. Welcome, O pretty one who has followed her two siblings in getting born. Life did not allow us to rejoice in welcoming you in the faraway country. I am welcoming you from afar. I am writing these lines for you. I hope, when you read them, that you will say ...
Read moreThe Canaanite Woman
When Pascha is delayed, the Church chooses for the Sundays that precede the preparation for Lent, gospel accounts that also give us an overview of the feast from afar. Last Sunday, for example, we read the Gospel of Zacchaeus, the tax collector who wanted to see Jesus. Today, we read the story of the Canaanite ...
Read moreIncreasing Love
This is a time in which nothing saves us but solidarity and putting the interests of others before our own. Do not expect salvation from palaces that store up injustice and misery (Amos 3:10). Salvation lies in increasing active love in this time; yes, in this time and in every time.
Read moreTo the Rulers in Lebanon
In ancient culture, the ruler is a reference to be returned to, during the struggles of life, for the wisdom he enjoys… I am returning to you today. I have a question that baffles me. I can deem that it is the question of the millions who are crying out, in silence or in public, ...
Read moreFire and Ice!
What is this fatal contradiction that is happening in Lebanon today? Life is fire, it is all fire, while most people are pieces of ice! Everything in Lebanon is ablaze. Potable water, in the country of water, is ablaze. The bread is ablaze; medicine; electricity... However, most of the Lebanese seem to deal with what ...
Read moreTogether in the Depth
I was late in discovering the Christians in other Churches. I was slow to run to a sycamore tree that would help me see the Christ Who dwells with them and in them. In the early years of my commitment, words about them were tenacious that they believed only in themselves. I remember that one ...
Read moreFollow Him Now
A few days ago, I was struck by the words of Rev. Aidan Wilson Tozer, who passed away in 1963: “Faith dares to fail”. Before I try to search for the meaning of the word, I would like to tell you that my reading of what has come down to us from the writings of ...
Read moreSpiritual Pride
In the movie “The Two Popes,” Pope Benedict XVI, of thrice-blessed memory, (played by Anthony Hopkins) tells Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce), in their fictional dialogue: “we all suffer from spiritual pride, all of us. You must remember that you are not God… However, you must believe in the mercy that you ...
Read moreBeing of One Mind
When the Apostle called us to be joined together in the same mind (1 Corinthians 1: 10), he knew that those who sell themselves to the beast are also of one mind (Revelation 17:13). In Christianity, being of one mind does not mean that people agree on everything, but that they reject the mind of ...
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