Commitment consists of faithfulness. I am reiterating the perception of the elders in our Church. Their life is the beacon, the eloquent language that guides to God, the goal of our life in the present and the future. You see them together, each of them coming from the God Who is in the others. Their ...
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Blessed is He Who Comes
We drew closer to Pascha. Pascha has been with us since the beginning of Lent. Its scent adhered to everything, to what it requires, to its prayers, to its topics, to the brethren’s faces, to the saints who were implanted in it. We do not believe that we, on our own, are capable of achieving ...
Read moreLazarus
The feast of the raising of Lazarus, celebrated by the Church in the past on this day, was one of the four days on which the qualified catechumens used to receive the sacrament of baptism. Two things are essential in the celebration of this feast: the first is that the position of the feast seems ...
Read moreA Man of Obedience
Today, Metropolitan Saba Esper took off for America. He carried with him our love and prayers, and followed the decision of the Antiochian Synod to serve his new Archdiocese. His departure from us is anguish that can only be healed by our knowledge that all the faithful in the expanse of his new ministry, old ...
Read moreSigns of the Divine Love
I hold fast to a story that does not leave us in the Lenten prayers, namely, the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). There are three signs of divine love that are manifest in the father’s stances in the story. The first sign is that, when the younger son asked for “the portion of ...
Read moreTo God Alone
During your day, bow your head to God for some of the time you bow it to your phone. Do not toss this suggestion away. This call is for all of us to give God, at all times, some of our time. The phone logs the time we spend on it. Determine how long, out ...
Read moreWe are Still on the Way
The question of Saint John Climacus: “Why in the case of every other sin do we usually say that people have slipped, and simply that; but when we hear that someone has committed fornication, we say sorrowfully: So and so has fallen?” (15:44), confirms my conviction that the entire Great Lent is a call to ...
Read moreFools for Christ’s Sake
During Lent, we hold, on Wednesday evening and Friday morning, a communion service that we call the Presanctified Liturgy. Like every communal service, this cannot be carried out by the priest alone. He needs brethren to participate in carrying it out, among them at least, a chanter, a reader, and an altar servant. I know ...
Read moreAppointments with Glory
Lent is an icon of commitment. One of the things it requires us to be strong in is that we are a bridge to God. There are always people around us who do not care about God or who are limping in their commitment to Him. I am talking today about those who are our ...
Read moreHaving Mercy on Others
He who is incapable of having mercy on others, whose guilt has been confirmed to him, cannot be aware of what he means by saying: “Lord, have mercy”. To ask for mercy for ourselves, is something that presupposes that we seek to be healed of this reprehensible disability. You know the saying: “whoever has, to ...
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