Last night, a TV reportage reminded me of the "International Blood Donor Day". For healthy adults (between 18 and 65 years old) this is an exhortation to be vigilant that we are all responsible for serving life on earth. The reportage told that male donors could, if they wished, repeat this donation every two months, ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
Half of the Medicine
I have a doctor friend who lives abroad. On one of his visits to Lebanon, I consulted him about a mutual friend of ours. He gave me the name of a doctor who works here in one of the hospitals in Lebanon. My friend went to him. He prescribed for him a treatment that he ...
Read moreFreedom
In the nineteenth century, the disease of “the system of slavery” had spread in the United States of America. Once, the attorney Abraham Lincoln (who became the sixteenth president of his country) saw, in one of the states, black men and women tied up like cattle, and offered for sale at auction! A woman was ...
Read moreThe Giving Spirit
What will we ask the Spirit to give us today? If I may suggest an answer, we have today an urgent need for three gifts. The first is to see God. The world today lives in alienation from seeing God. God is here. “Sir, we wish to see …”. The second gift is to know ...
Read moreThe Meaning of Man
Any meaning given to honor Man remains scanty vis-à-vis the belief that God has chosen us as a temple for Himself, a dwelling place for His Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16).
Read moreShameful News!
I will share with you a piece of news that made me feel ashamed. One of the priests of a sister church told me: “after the Sunday Liturgy, a brother who frequents the Church at times, from a Sunday to another, came into the altar. I was taking off my vestments. Without introduction, he started ...
Read moreMemories From Zahle
I have lasting memories with the brethren in the Spiritual Activities Office in Zahle. I will tell you. Metropolitan George Khodr had referred me to talk about “Jesus’ temptation” to families from several churches gathering in the Antonine Sisters Convent in Bikfaya. There were brethren from Zahle, of whom I remember: Camille and Nada Cortas, ...
Read moreChafic Haidar
He is one of the brethren and leaders in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) since he fell in love with its eternal newness. Those who know him to be, throughout Antioch, one of the motivators towards reconciling and betterment of our Church, do not miss his elegance, whether he spoke or he listened. The Movement ...
Read moreWords of the Prophets
I passed by him. I greeted him. He responded with the same greeting, without allowing our eyes to meet. He was sweeping in front of a building in which it seemed to me that he was serving. There was another person behind me walking like me. I noticed him from his voice singing praises of ...
Read moreAllow Us to Rejoice
This morning, I read a piece of news that Lebanon has a rendezvous with about two million expatriate visitors this coming summer. Is there any of them whose decision is to stay? I know that my daughter will be one of those who will be visiting us, God willing. I am waiting for my son ...
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