Oh Jesus, no parable You have narrated for our good and our reform frightens me as much as the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13). I am talking openly to You about what You know of me, with and without words. Tell me: how do You expel from the wedding five out of ten ...
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Great Monday
O Jesus, ever since Your face shone to me on the faces of brethren who wished me to be with them in Your Church, I have been struck by holiness. I am here on the road leading to your Pascha. The feast is near yet distant! The days are passing by. But my shocks are ...
Read morePalm Sunday
This is a day for all of us, young and old, to declare that we are with Christ, hoping to be accepted as members in His eternal kingdom. Our children with us are our expression that this is our upbringing and our legacy. Everything we carry with us, ourselves and our children, palm fronds and ...
Read moreThe Proclamation of Pascha
The forty-day fast practically ends on this day. Tomorrow, after we follow Jesus in His entry into Jerusalem, the Church will call us to join another fast, the "Great Week Fast", which used to be, in ancient times, the preparatory fast for Pascha. The convergence of the two fasts, the forty-day fast and the Great ...
Read moreNadia Nasrallah
Nadia Nasrallah thrives on the love of the Word. You see her, in all her appearances, extending kind words here, and expressing admiration there with flowers that seem as if she plucked them from the courtyard of her fraternal home in the Keserwan district (Mount Lebanon), or prayers she brought from her Church as tokens ...
Read moreThe Mind of the Orthodox Church
The Great Lent is also a time for reading, a journey towards greater understanding of the word and its meanings. You know that there are books provided by the Church that offer us eternal nourishment during Lent (the New Testament, The Ladder of Divine Ascent...). This encourages us to establish a special tradition of reading, ...
Read moreThe Poor in the Church
Some exegetes suggest that when Jesus said, "You have the poor with you always" (Matthew 26:11), He meant that the wealthy of the world would never have any desire to change the social and economic structures on earth. Pay no attention to the fact that they came up with this interpretation based on the reality ...
Read moreJeremiah's Complaint
I read, with new amazement, “Jeremiah’s Complaint” which he had kept for his readers in his twentieth chapter. The prophets are men who belong to God. Flesh, their flesh, is a dwelling place for Him. They all have had words that open the present onto the time to come. Jeremiah's assignment was to deliver the ...
Read moreThe Desire of the World
Man comes from a mindset. Should you see him giving in to a parlance brimming with hatred towards the different other and with love for blood..., expect the forest to expand into the city and the village! Those who have known Lebanon before the war, which was falsely named the "Two-Year War", can bear witness ...
Read moreThe Will of God
The forty-day fast served to heighten awareness that “the will of God is our sanctification”. When the Church presented Jesus calling His disciples on the first Sunday of Lent, she revealed the inception of this saving will. On the second Sunday, she brought into view the second step that follows the disciples' call. Jesus was ...
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