We all grieve over the illness of someone we love; yet, little do we think of God Who grieves for us, if we get sick or broken by a weakness… “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick” (John 11:3). God loves us. I am speaking of this affection that unites us in Him as ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Beautiful Story
One of the contemporary fathers wrote: “sometimes, an icon can be written for you, and at other times, a hateful story. We all combine this terrible contradiction”! When I read these words, I thought that their writer, when writing them, had borrowed his parlance from the Pharisee of the temple (Luke 18: 10-14). I do ...
Read moreThe Children of God
His word caught my attention. It was, eloquent, dripping with honey, and extremely realistic. He said, "he who gets bored of repeating the story, will not know how to read the Bible on a daily basis". I wrote down, on a piece of paper that I had with me, what I had heard. Are you ...
Read moreThe Rain of Great and Holy Friday
Nothing matters to some Christians in our country, from this or that Church, more than that it rains on Great and Holy Friday. What shall I tell you of their happiness, if it rains on their Friday? If it rains, they fill the world with joy and noise, they even seize God by considering that ...
Read moreThe Paschal Greeting
What does a man, who has not entered the Church once after his baptism, mean when he tells you with remarkable enthusiasm: “Christ is risen!”? Christ is indeed risen. However, is the issue of His resurrection verbal, that is, formal? You do understand. Christians, when they greet one another with the tidings of Pascha, are ...
Read moreThe Upcoming Elections
What are we being told before the parliamentary elections, which are expected to take place in the middle of this month? Many things are said that can be summed up in one word: “let us prepare ourselves, freely, for the elections”. That the election process be considered a national duty, this concerns every citizen who ...
Read moreGod’s Work
Today, Metropolitan Silouan Moussi hosted, in the beautiful village of “Al-Qusaybeh”, the meeting of the brethren members of the Orthodox Youth Movement in Mount Lebanon (MJO) on the feast of their local chapter. The meeting began with the Divine Liturgy, during which the beloved brother Tony Abdo was ordained a deacon. The brethren in the ...
Read moreThe Children’s Joy
I had told you about my weakness in front of happy faces. I will remind you. I do not think that there is, in the whole world, more beautiful than a laughing child. Yesterday, I saw, on the road, a lad caught up in a fit of laughter! I tried to stay put. I wanted ...
Read moreAn Eloquent Lesson
After my ordination as a priest, Metropolitan George Khodr sent me to help one of the brethren priests in our Archdiocese. The first Divine Liturgy in which I participated with him was the Paschal Divine Liturgy. During the Liturgy, when the priest had read the Gospel, he turned to me and said, without preamble: “the ...
Read moreNathanael
You remember Nathanael the Apostle. We have read about him on the first Sunday of Great Lent (John 1:43-51). What is unique in the account of his call is that it differs from the call of the other apostles in that he alone is called by Jesus, through his friend Philip’s word. John the Evangelist ...
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