He who knows something about the meanings of the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father Who art in heaven) does not miss that, in it, Jesus has called on us to break the distance which God had broken between Himself and us. This is not revealed only by His calling on us that with boldness we may ...
Read moreMonthly Archives: March 2023
A Better Day
I had told you, before, about the culture of the beautiful girls May, Mira, and Marianne Mitri. The older two gifted me with three novels. I was tardy in “unwrapping the gift” for a purpose I adopt in reading. I will tell you. In my house I have a bookcase in which I put the ...
Read morePagnol Taught Me
Before I read French writer Marcel Pagnol’s novel “My Mother’s Castle” (Le Château de ma Mère), I had no idea that the snake eats at widely spaced intervals (Pagnol says: “once a month”, page 75). This is an ignorance that has been entrenched in me by my distancing myself from all that pertains to the ...
Read moreOf the Striving of the Coptic Church
I am amazed at the effort exerted by the Coptic Church in electronic (and paper) publishing. What is remarkable about this publication is that it is open to the thought of the Churches of the whole world. To lay before the eyes of your people what originated with others in whom you trust, this means ...
Read moreOverwhelming Words!
I parked my car far away from the hospital, where regular check-ups were awaiting me, and I started walking. This was a few days ago. Before I arrived, I entered a church adjoining the hospital, which used to call me to enter every time I passed by its door that is always open during the ...
Read moreAlive in God
I am not a liturgist. However, my conviction is firm that the Great Lent, in its laid down structure, reveals that Pascha, which is the destination of Lent, overshadows all the days of fasting. One of the brethren asked me a few days ago: “the selected Gospels for Sundays during the Great Lent are all ...
Read moreWider Than the Heavens
There are two in the world about whom it was said that they are wider than the heavens, the Virgin Mary, the Mother who was capable of holding in her womb the Word Who is un-circumscribable, and those who have learned that “he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Let us not say ...
Read moreWednesday Evening
Ever since Father George Massouh departed to God’s mercy five years ago, I pledged to spend an hour or two a week at his home, with his wife and three daughters. I had always had my visits to this fraternal house, and they continued with a rhythm that found its way to becoming constant every ...
Read moreA Fasting Day
I heard him say to some of our friends at a gathering that brought them together: “Fasting is a phase. Those who are conscious among us do not let it pass without scooping up what it gives us out of its bounty”. These words prompted me to think about what fasting bestows each day. I ...
Read moreA Complaint to God!
Today, in Lebanon, the high prices are the talk of the town. Prices are afire. It is unbelievable. Yesterday, one of our neighbors in the area stopped me, and raised his phone in front of my face, opening it to a site that publishes, moment by moment, the price of the dollar (or the lira’s ...
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