Change the world. Love; those who are with you and those who seek refuge in you… give them of your time, your listening, and your experience in life. Give to your children and your friends… and to those whom you think you owe something. Rest assured, nothing changes the world other than that we love.
Read moreMonthly Archives: January 2023
The One Love
I will pick for you, from the garden of St. Maximus the Confessor, his saying: “Blessed is the man who has learnt to love all men equally”. Words about the one love do not originate from a human being, and even no human being is capable of it on his own. The Confessor Saint did ...
Read moreA Learned From Experience
His love for God caught my eye ever since I came to this area in which I serve. He is not a member of our Church. Our encounters are made by coincidences or duties. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit him in his office. During the visit, a secret in him ...
Read moreGod is One
The first title, which occurred to me before I wrote these lines, was: "the Unity of Christians". My intention was not to write about the desired unity, but about what can make us deserve it, that is, about the openness we need to have at a time when many do not see any good in ...
Read moreThe Confident Love
Why was Brother Tony Bitar, who was kept, today, from the brethren’s greetings by celebrating the feast in heaven, insistent, in his final stances, that the Antiochian Church canonizes Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, of thrice-blessed memory? I have two answers of which I will reveal one, and leave today the second, were we to live, to ...
Read moreIn the Shadow of the Saints
Two days ago, I took out from my library the hagiography of St. Anthony the Great, which was published by An-Nour Publications in 1995. For his feast tomorrow, preparations are due. The hagiography stirred up old memories in me. Visions have their own beginnings. I remember that the regeneration youths had decided to distribute this ...
Read moreThe Mystery of Thanksgiving
This morning, we read in our Church the Gospel of the healing of the ten lepers (Luke 17:12-19). The story of this Gospel is well known. Ten lepers, Jesus comes to them and commands them to show their healing to the priests. Only one of these men returns to Him, and thanks Him for having ...
Read moreChildren's Peace Over Anger
Destroy my remembrance before you let me see a child trembling from his parents’ screams. What have we to do with living life close to anger. That our children settle down in peace is far more precious than to have anyone remember that we were ever here.
Read moreOne Household
I have lived far from carrying weapons. Had it not been for a bullet that a relative of mine, about forty-five years ago, pushed me to fire at a tin hanging from a strap in the air, I would have said that I have never held a weapon in my life. I am not bragging ...
Read moreThe False Prosperity
For every flaw we insist on, there is a concept which we attribute to God! The flaw that I would like to slap publicly before you today is the belief that some of us hold that God is always obligated to give us what we ask Him for. Does God only exist to serve what ...
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