On the Sundays of Lent, the Church urges us to focus on the two aspects of commitment, doctrine and life. What I want to emphasize today is that the ultimate purpose of this focus is to embrace orthodoxy regardless of circumstances. Nothing we know has any meaning if we do not believe that orthodoxy is ...
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The Loving Person
He who makes you feel suffocated by his concern for you, do not convince yourself that he loves you. The care of a loving person is quite different; you can truly discern him from the spaces of freedom he shares with you.
Read moreTake my hand
O God of mercy and life, do not leave me alone. Here You see me. This is me, all of me before You. You know what I need. I am weak and confused. Be my strength and my guidance. I do not want for myself any decision that You do not take with me, or ...
Read moreTo Resemble the Icon
Whenever I hear one of the brethren recounting about the person in charge of them in the church that he does not know anything but to criticize them, I hasten to ask him: “does he help you achieve what he is wishing for you?”. These words are not new to you. When God shows us ...
Read moreReality and the Hoped for
The book "Lights on Orthodox Reality and the Hoped for", published by "An-Nour Orthodox Cooperative", is, literally, the person who composed it, brother Raymond Rizk. I do not insist on this definition to confine the brother author to a book he published in 242 pages, but to say that, despite the weight of his years, ...
Read moreOn Orthodoxy
Two days ago, a friend of mine shared with me words she had taken from a homily by Metropolitan Athanasios Fahd of Latakia. One of them was: "The only thing Orthodoxy rejects is sin". The word captivated me. Is it the time, filled with voices of demonization, that made me a captive of what I ...
Read moreFather George Massouh
Father George, who left us six years ago, lived his life as a man who knows what he chooses and what he rejects. Today, I will not list all his known choices for you. I will content myself with two of them, namely: Antioch as the ground for his priesthood ministry, and the Orthodox Youth ...
Read moreHis Mother, Our Mother
To believe that the Virgin Mary is "the mother of Jesus" is the foundation of our faith that she is our mother as well. "Behold your mother", Jesus said to His beloved disciple (John 19:27). Notice the movement of the utterance. It is Jesus Who presents Mary as a mother to His disciple, or to ...
Read moreThe Mightiest Weapon
Those who strive to perfect themselves in the life of righteousness will not lack someone to teach them that the mightiest weapon a warrior can wield against deadly temptations is to flee from them.
Read moreAn Opportune Time
We understand nothing of God's salvific action if we do not grow in our spreading of hope in every age. To those who confine themselves to criticizing the current circumstances or who compare the days, loving the past and bemoaning the present conditions: do not elevate one era over another as if the regeneration is ...
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