I read news on an electronic media outlet stating that over 60,000 worshippers carried out the Eid Al-Fitr prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque devoid of any festive atmosphere due to the ongoing aggression on Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Those who entered the mosque did so right before the eyes of a state that excels ...
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The Word of God
If obedience to the Word bestows a new life upon us, then every exhortation to read it becomes new. This allows me to tell you today also that we, in our Church, did not arrange the fasts to remain without food. During the fast, the Christian finds his sustenance in the Word that proceeds from ...
Read moreThe Testimony of Freedom
When one of the members of the strivers’ Church ever insults the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29), this causes damages to her life and her testimony. I am speaking of all the committed people, laymen, monks, deacons, priests, and bishops! Yesterday, I read news on an electronic media outlet about two monks, from an independent ...
Read moreGod is Love
When our tradition says that God loves the world, it means He loves all people at all times and in all conditions, without discriminating between one person and another, whether sinful or righteous. This is an essential aspect of the God portrayed in our Scriptures as: love (1 John 4:8), meaning a steadfast love that ...
Read morePeople's Salvation
He said to me: "Madness, if we remain silent about it, deems itself sane". I agreed with him on that statement. However, I told him, "When you break your silence, make sure to utter words that the insane can comprehend"! We have an obligation to demonstrate to people, whether through our silence or our speech, ...
Read moreA Battlefield for the Light
Lent is described in tradition as a battlefield for spiritual warfares. It serves as a ground to expose darkness and repent of it. It is both a battlefield and a weapon. The darkness that besieges us in our days, is summoned by Lent to its tribunal for scrutiny. Weariness, sloth, anger, and doubt through which ...
Read moreGuidance of the Faithful
I will speak to you without preamble. Some individuals in positions of influence over the lives of the faithful, both within our Church and elsewhere, hold peculiar or even bizarre beliefs! I will expose their stance on chastity, for example. I have heard rumors about certain priests (more than one of whom is from our ...
Read moreStarting Off Towards Pascha
It has become an annual tradition for me to read, on days like these, Father Alexander Schmemann's book "The Great Lent". The book is of paramount importance, whether in terms of knowledge, as it pertains to the "Triodion period," or the author's ability to delve into our depths, in order to provide us with the ...
Read moreMy Father Again
My father fell asleep, having nothing but God's mercy. I was a young lad when he hastened to God. He departed just as he had emerged from his mother's womb! Of what he had left behind, I still have two treasured items: a staff as tall as his arm which he occasionally wielded when leaving ...
Read moreIbrahim Barbour
I saw him in the hall of the “Church of the Mother of God of the Life-giving Spring” in the mid-eighties of the last century, standing alongside a few young people who had decided to embrace the engagements of the Word that always seeks to awaken us to understanding and the service of love. He ...
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