I discovered my father after he returned to God, his Father! If I wanted to record the date of his absence, I would say forty-seven years ago. However, he whom you deem more powerfully present after descending into the dust, you will not be objective if you talk exclusively about his absence. Most young people, ...
Read moreMonthly Archives: June 2023
A New President
Watching them aroused my interest. I was walking in our neighborhood. There were a few young volunteers in the “Red Cross” standing in the middle of the road, and one of them, in bashful retreat, was carrying a box, hoping that those who are passing-by in their cars would freely place in it something of ...
Read moreThe Feast
When I committed myself to the Church life, I discovered the feast. Previously, the feast, for me, consisted of the two feasts, the small one and the great one, Christmas and Pascha. Any other ecclesiastical matter was of no concern to me. Commitment has given me to discover that any devotional gathering is a complete ...
Read moreGive Me Your Heart
Do you expect God to believe that we really love Him? He will believe if He sees us love without any discrimination. This is what He meant when He said: “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways” (Proverbs 23:26). When God occupies our hearts and our eyes, that is, ...
Read moreEvangelizing the Depths
A meeting, which I join every week, prompted me to re-read Simone Pacot’s book: “Evangelizing the Depths” (An-Nour Cooperative, 2016). I do not know who of you has read the book. Once, after its release, I had encouraged you to read it. Today, I am sending this new encouragement to those who have not read ...
Read moreThe Daily Prayers
Those who pray are rare nowadays. Priests know, they know from the communion of life within the parish and its extensions, from the sincerity of the brethren, as well as from other things that make this world seem like it is night. I am not talking about those who sum up the ecstasy of the ...
Read moreElias Khoury
A close friend, whose eyes look for news of joy, sent me a piece of news of the American University of Beirut granting “the prolific writer” Elias Khoury an honorary doctorate. This is eloquent news that should not be read in a hurry. An American university is proud to recognize the ascent, on the paths ...
Read moreThe Better Lebanon
There is no country like Lebanon that teaches you to “fend for yourself”: in your health safety; in your children’s education; in water and electricity, and in your commute… Do not expect from the country, that is, those who are supposed to rule it, to help you in anything. It is preoccupied with many things, ...
Read moreThe Living Homily
The Saints’ setting off for the path of commitment is a Word for obedience, and their ending is a Word that narrates fluently and freely, without anyone’s permission, the glorious deeds of the Holy Spirit working in them. This is what was evoked in me through my reading of the awaited book: “Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, ...
Read moreFeast of All Saints
It is the feast of the active revelation that God wanted all Mankind with Him in His Kingdom. He who looks closely at the feast, especially in its ecclesial position, falling on the first Sunday after Pentecost, will notice, with no effort, that, through it, the Church intended to confirm her awareness that, while on ...
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