Pascha is to be extended. The question: how do I live in a Paschal way?, cannot be answered except by reflecting on what was said in the prayers of the feast. I will remind you firstly that the believer attends the divine service, whatever its occasion, that is, he prepares himself for it, and then, ...
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Awareness of the Elders
Only the elders in the land are aware that the testimony to God cannot be preserved by fawning over the shrines of the world, whatever their thrones may be.
Read moreA Path to the Best
There is nothing more difficult than honesty when it urges us to reform ourselves. It is of the ingenuity of the traditional Churches that they practice the sacrament of repentance and confession. I say to my friends that “if we tell the priest our confessor about a sin we have committed, we accept him if ...
Read moreThe Wealth of the World
Do not make a thief think you are one of his rivals! I am not alleviating the crime of theft, but rather I am exalting our responsibility for spreading the culture of life on earth. How does the thief know that theft is killing others? If we give him up to dull ideas in which ...
Read moreDr. Elie Aramouni
Something broke in me when I knew that Dr. Elie Aramouni has prepared his departure to God. People are One Body in Christ. I like to interpret this by saying that, with his departure, I lost a great support. I recall him the day my wife fell ill in 2008. He was one of a ...
Read moreDearer Than our Eyes
She heard the priest say in his homily about Christ Who suffered for us: “no one who is weary can tell Christ: You do not understand me”. She drew close and whispered to me: “but He had no children”! We were, on one pew, participating in the service from the nave. Sometimes, children are (a ...
Read moreThe Joy of the Disciples
John the Evangelist commented on the entrance of the risen Jesus on His disciples who were assembled in the upper room, for fear of the Jews: “Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord” (John 20:20). This is the fruit of Pascha that Jesus offers us to rejoice. We all know that Jesus’ ...
Read morePascha in Antioch
His Beatitude Youhanna Yazigi, Patriarch of Antioch, concluded his visitation to the city of Antioch, Alexandretta and Mersin. I am not chronicling the visitation, but listening to the hymns of the Paschal Liturgy celebrated by His Beatitude and the delegation accompanying him on the ruins of the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in ...
Read moreCommemoration of the Two Bishops
On the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping of the two Bishops, Boulos Yazigi and Youhanna Ibrahim, speaking about their fate and the fate of those who are kidnapped in the land, is pressing. The crime that is denounced by far and near as being horrible, is still bleeding. In one of the articles I have ...
Read moreEid Fitr Saeed
If we are abiding in love, then we are with the Muslims in their feast. Today, I am not wishing them a happy feast only because my childhood friends and some others congratulate me on my major feasts, as has happened a few days ago, but also because their feast brings them joy. This is ...
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