Today, my eldest son sent me a picture of a Gospel text in which Jesus speaks about the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and the end times (Luke 21). He did not attach any inquiry or caption to the picture. He left me to guess, on my own, that he was embroiled in a ...
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The Face of a God
Yesterday, I received a number of messages and calls on my phone. People have been awake, since dawn, in sadness and anxiety over the world and its fate. The earthquake, the aftershocks of which have reached Lebanon from Turkey, did not prevent some friends from engaging in questioning about what this and that of them ...
Read moreDisaster at Dawn
Today at dawn, a natural disaster hit many regions in Turkey and Syria. Some of its repercussions reached us in Lebanon, along with a fear that is eloquent in reminding us that all life is fading away. People were here, and have departed. People had gone to bed in peace, and have risen to losses ...
Read moreThe Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee
When I was young, on winter nights, my mother used to seat us, my sister and I, next to her, cover us with her blanket, and indulge with us in story-telling. Before being their very topics, stories are, for those who were, like me, comforted by them, a person who loves you. The benefits of ...
Read moreGod is Love
No one knows anything, except he who knows that God, hallowed be His Name, loves us more than we know.
Read moreThe Foundation of Marriage
I heard Metropolitan George Khodr say, in a public meeting: “the Christian who knows how to get married, is the monk”! You know that the monk vows celibacy, that is, chastity. In Christianity, the monk does not marry. What Metropolitan George said is a metaphor by which he meant that, basically, marriage is not founded ...
Read moreChurch Leadership
A friend of mine from Syria told me that there are Christians in his country who have divorced their commitment with their Churches. I did not ask him about the reasons for this “divorce”, about which I know the opinion of some brethren; but rather I spoke to him first about God’s freedom in love. ...
Read moreA Country Not Lethargy
My wife read what I had written a few days ago about our clinical death in Lebanon (26/1). She asked me: “Have you heard the joke people are circulating today?” She did not wait for me, but continued to say: "The entire Lebanese people are surprised that the entire Lebanese people are still silent (about ...
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