I was in a "forest", walking. From afar, I saw a young girl bending down in front of a car. I thought she was looking for something that had fallen from her. Then I saw her standing, and swaying as if she were singing and dancing. When I got close to her, I noticed that ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Healing of the Paralytic Country
In our Church, this Sunday is called “the Sunday of the Paralytic” (John 5:1-15). This, we always receive it with joy because of its great consolations to us as individuals and as communities. It meant a lot to me that Lebanon’s election of its new Parliament occurs on the Sunday of this year. Lebanon resembles ...
Read moreThe Elections Are Tomorrow
I have a friend who repeats, during the election season, that he and his father go to the ballot box, neither of them knowing for whom the other will vote. If you ask him for an explanation, he will answer you: “this is a personal matter that is none of anyone’s business, not anyone”. How ...
Read moreThe Politics of Hatred Again
One of the signs of an intrusive politician is that he orates in his hatred towards those who disagree with him in his political opinions. I will explain myself. By intrusive, I do not mean exclusively a person who had not entered the parliamentary assembly before, rather, any person who seeks to build a position ...
Read moreThe Trade of Votes
In the parliamentary elections in Lebanon, we can do anything! Today I will dedicate my lines to the evil of the "trade of votes". Why are there people, in the elections, who accept to sell their vote? Is it poverty? Is it greed? Is it being clever with people whom we know are using us? ...
Read moreThe Children’s Tenderness
I am embarrassed about inserting myself into my lines. Yet, I beg your pardon, I cannot conceal my sorrow, even my resentment at every adult who does not preserve, as the apple of his eye, his children’s tenderness. Will any of you explain to me, if you will, what it means for a man to ...
Read moreThe Pope's Visit
Can Lebanon, which is attending to the affairs of the parliamentary elections and their internal and external conflicts, receive a stronger blow than the postponement of the visit of His Holiness the Pope of Rome, which was scheduled for next June? The visit, which was postponed for "health reasons", was an explicit message to the ...
Read moreFrom Their Eyes!
Yesterday, the Lebanese abroad completed the second phase of the parliamentary elections, that is, the voting process. Today, I am not going to tell you about this event. The words of my eldest son, who voted with his wife yesterday, are still ringing in my ears, that is, his saying that: "Lebanon abroad is not ...
Read more“The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved”
Does this phrase, which was unique to John in his Gospel, mean that Jesus preferred a disciple over the others? You do know that the Apostle John, whom many scholars agree that he concealed himself behind this phrase, uses it, in his Gospel, five times: at the Last Supper (13:23), before the Cross (19:26), when ...
Read moreThe Communion of Prayer
The greatest thing a person does in life is to raise others to God. You may know that some of those who ask you to pray for them do not realize that it is communion, that is, they do not know that it is not a mere borrowing or a complete dependence on others. Never ...
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