Today, anger was raining down on the streets. He who walks on its streets during the day knows what I mean. The children are, most of the times, in their homes. They only get out of them, occasionally. They are their school; their playground; their park... I have revealed before that the world is on ...

Yesterday, I begged a friend for a few pills of medicine he said he could spare. Most of you know. I am a priest who serves in an area I have been living in for more than thirty-three years. I estimate that there are nearly twenty pharmacies in it. Most of the pharmacists, if not ...

Days ago, my granddaughter Nour fell off her bicycle. The little ones do not grow up without the older ones decreasing! When she talked to her grandmother on FaceTime, she was wearing a mask. This was not the first time we see her following this tradition of the world imposed by the oppressive pandemic. We ...

I have a friend whose doctor has forbidden from smoking. The COVID-19 pandemic has made us forget that there are other malignant illnesses! My friend failed to follow his doctor's words. His wife urged me talk to him. I know the pleasure he thinks smoking can make him feel. I talked to him with his ...

I have known people who, if the brethren in the ecclesial communities languished, they would raise their requirement that they do not work in an environment where not everyone is working. Satan has no greater ambition than to cause us to transgress the words of Jesus: “My Father has been working until now, and I ...

We are in need of the staggering words, in need of their ingenuity, their renewal which heals of insanity. I will relay to you one of these words. The wise man said: “many entreat the favor of the nobility, and every man is a friend to one who gives gifts. All the brothers of the ...

Wherever the domineering person is, whether at home, or in the Church, or in the government or in the party…, you will find darkness, you will find flat faces the expressions of which had been usurped, you will find the futile human being. Before anything else, the domineering person is a self-sufficient human being who ...

I have not told you about her before. I am sorry. “Madame Annette” reposed at the beginning of the year 2005. She was a friend to all those to whom Metropolitan George Khodr was a friend: the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO); bishops; priests; seminarians; the poor of Antioch… The woman is reminiscent of the women ...

Once, Socrates saw in the marketplace many things that were displayed for sale. Do you know what was his comment? He said: “How many are the things I can do without”. Philosophers! Contentment is a treasure. Not too long ago, many of us were living a life of greed. For young and old, life consisted ...