Mary! Beauty was spoken about until you came, then it was revealed. Whatever words were produced by people’s thoughts about you, those same words express their failure in describing your eternal youth. The renewing tale is an uprising against the weakness of thoughts, against the senescence of language and the powerlessness of history, it is ...
Read moreDo not believe that there is someone like the free man who is able to live under the judgment of God and in His service.
Read moreToday, I would like to appreciate, in my own way, Matthew the Apostle’s formulation of the event of the healing of the centurion’s servant (8:5-13). I am talking about the literarily detailed meaning. Three things demonstrate Matthew's determination to show that this leader resembles Jesus. 1- Breaking the distance that prevents him from reaching Jesus, ...
Read moreThese are lines that are difficult to understand except for those who have reached this rock bottom we have reached in Lebanon. I will talk to you about the electricity, which our successive ministries have not only found difficult to solve, but also to program the times for distributing it to the people. The Lebanese ...
Read moreI was struck by the words of the poet Alfred Tennyson: “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of”. Confidence abounds in these words. We see it in every word, in every letter. There is no prayer without confidence; no testimony without experience. Who would believe these words? It is the experienced ...
Read moreHow do we help one another be better? The question reveals that the better is possible in the communal life, in the sense that the one who takes care of the brethren out of conviction, is always before the “good Word of God,” or that is what should be. This does not only mean that ...
Read moreLast night, I took the advice of one of my friends to watch an old movie that he told me about. In one scene, there was knocking on the door of a married couple who were engrossed in a private conversation. The husband got up, and opened the door. He never looked through the peephole ...
Read moreWhen I write about a sight that struck me, I confess publicly that God reveals to us of His goodness what He reveals, and conceals what He conceals. The eyes are stormed and they are ever curtailed. God is manifested in the narration as well as in the silence, in the faces with resounding expressions, ...
Read moreWe can ask others to do many things on our behalf, except for prayer. The word, which we say to one another: “Pray for me,” is not a delegation or a procuration, but a declaration of communion. There is nothing, like each one of us praying personally, that can drive from us the illusion that ...
Read moreI was walking in a neighboring area. I saw two women on the road, each carrying a child who seemed to me to be her grandchild. The grandmother is an icon of sacrificial love. I passed by a little. The voice of a man entering a store reached me. Addressing the shop owner the way ...
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