This is an incident that I like to repeat. I visited Metropolitan George Khodr once. He was sitting at the kitchen table in his house eating breakfast. After greeting and chatting with him, one of the brethren of his assistants pointed out to us that the birthday of one of his close acquaintances falls on ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
Of the Household
This morning, I woke up early to a question from a friend. He said to me: “why do you not dare to criticize the Synodists…?” (I think he meant the members of the Synod in the Church of Antioch). He chose to place his question, in a text I had posted a few days ago, ...
Read moreThe Maker Church
It is not the people who make the Church. It is she who makes them, if they adhere to her Truth. What do you do with those who ram their vices in her? It is not you who do. There is a great Lord of whom His Gospel says that He is at hand (Philippians ...
Read moreFaith Leadership
If faith in God does not lead me to fructify my faith through the love of all others, without distinguishing between face and face, near or far..., I publicly declare that I am one of the leaders of the contemporary Pharisees.
Read moreA Grateful Greeting!
I have a friend who had emigrated about a month ago. He went in search of bread in a country that does not hide bread from its people. Yesterday, he called me. He told me that a mutual friend took him on Sunday to one of our churches in his new country. After the Liturgy ...
Read moreA Letter to God
Oh God, I am writing to you about the great injustice in Lebanon. I am writing about the fear of disease, and even of the absence of medicines, which makes life as if it were an open tomb, and even of death by starvation and loneliness… In Lebanon, we do not know when bread will ...
Read moreWaiting for a Miracle!
Every time I see him, I invite him to Church. His excuses are always ready. I know that his absence from the congregational prayer is a standpoint. His parents passed away early. This is really a disaster!! Among his siblings, he alone has put the prayer of his Church behind his back. His older brother, ...
Read moreA New Spectacle
I am always struck by the Apostle’s word about himself and his peers that they “have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men” (1 Corinthians 4:9). Did I mention this to you before? Perhaps. In this verse, I am fascinated by the boldness of Paul in acknowledging the witnessing ...
Read moreThe Angel of Joy
Yesterday, my eyes fell on this photo. This is my grandson who has left Lebanon after the explosion of Beirut in 2020. It is not only the longing for him that prompted me to write these lines, but also my great love for his constant insistence on appearing joyful. His face has often drawn me ...
Read moreA New Election
Today, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Mount Lebanon elected Sister Nada Wazen as president of their chapter for the next two years. What they wanted, in this election, was to put before themselves a faithful face to complete with them their walk to the face of Jesus. I will tell you ...
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