This online expanse, which I started using nine years ago, is still faithful to its outset. It started as an expanse on which friends exchanged their pictures, and it did not stray from everything that evokes joy for the joy of friends and relatives…, and sorrow for their sorrow. Is there anything greater than friendship? ...
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My Mother
My mother’s face was heaven on earth. Does love get stronger after death? Do those who depart persist, more and more, in their being present? In order to rest from any fatigue, I only had to look at her, to run to her eyes which had almost broken up with the sight of the earth ...
Read moreWilliam Saab: Poet of the Eternal Issues
The book, which grabs you after you hold it, is a writer who has prevailed over you by repeating to you that love is prolific. A few days ago, my friend, Dr. Adib Saab offered me his book: "William Saab, Poet of the Eternal Issues". I follow the poets to the great transformation. Any reader ...
Read moreOur Hospital
The Church is not the proper place to preserve our "deadly diseases", our sins and complexes, but rather it is our eternal hospital. Being aware of this requires one thing, it requires sincerity of commitment. The “diseases”, when we refuse to repent of them, are very likely to delude us that we are the doctors ...
Read moreAn Offered Treasure
The forty-day holy fast in our Church begins with the petition of the hymnographer “Grant unto me thy word, O Word of the Father” (Kontakion of Forgiveness Sunday). The hymn is clear. The fast is a season of litanies. We had noticed, since we started looking at lent, during the preparation period, that the Church ...
Read moreMy Mother Said
My mother came to the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) because of what she was seeing with her early-ailing eyes. Without entering any one of its halls, she joined it with love, which is stronger than every illness. This was before we joined the ranks of the Movement, that is, before my sister grew up in ...
Read moreThe Regeneration Secret
Today, in our difficult time on more than one level, I would like to pay tribute to the young brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) who are striving to serve the regeneration of their Church in this Antiochian expanse, in word and deed. I do not mean only the revered brethren who are watching ...
Read moreTake, Eat
The sisters in St. Jacob's Monastery, Deddeh (in northern Lebanon), sent me the book "Take, Eat", a collection of sermons and talks by Metropolitan Youhanna Mansour, of thrice-blessed memory, compiled by Samer Awad (published by Ain al-Zuhur, Latakia). I am not stating anything that is not felt by many people if I said: “the book ...
Read moreReforming the World
Yesterday, in a personal meeting, a friend of mine said: “many people among us live in deadly contradiction. You see them on the one hand hating death, and on the other hand putting to death the beautiful things planted by God in us”! I cannot describe to you the pains that these words have left ...
Read moreKnowing the Word
One of the brethren asked: “how does one become a better person, a real disciple of God, without being guided by the elders in the Church to the path to the new life?”. He was asking about the role of the priests in conveying the mind of the Lord, particularly about preaching. It slips most ...
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