Yesterday, at ten o’clock at night, I met, online, with brethren, with whom we had been brought together by the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Mount Lebanon, back in the eighties of the last century. Some of them are scattered in Lebanon, and some others are now in the United States and Canada. Most of ...

Along the course of my commitment, I had been seized by many polemics pertaining to your movement. The fate of the “teaching”, within groups of different churches, used to make my head spin. I was late in perceiving that the Spirit of God can always initiate in us the Word which “would gather together in ...

Those who anticipate Christ “to sit on the throne of His glory” today, you should believe them if they told you that, yesterday, before the empty tomb, they have met angels who told them that Jesus is alive! The people of Pascha are those who are tightly drawn to the end!

Our Ascetic tradition recommends to the novice monk to flee from two: the bishop and the woman. Can we, priests, accept this recommendation as well? If our life consisted of obedience and ministry, how would it be for us? We have its spirit. Our ministry, or any other ministry, cannot be right without fleeing, fleeing ...

Since I was a young lad, I thought it best to watch the motion pictures along with others. I have no trouble connecting the events with one another. My flaw is that, when I sit to watch a movie, I do not stick to it, but I allow other thoughts to capture me! This, if ...

Of the words that capture my heart, is the word of Joel the prophet: “Let the weak say: I am strong” (3:10). I know the context in which the verse was said. I would not be ignoring its contents if I said: “I have spent my whole life regarding as hideous he who takes advantage ...

For Man to reveal the face of God to the Man his brother, this is one of the mysteries of the Holy Spirit. How can this mystery possibly be fulfilled without an encounter? Am I encouraging you today to deny the threat of the disease? Life is a responsibility. I am aware that there is ...

Scriptures consist of their meaning. Blessed are they who have been taken by the beauty of meaning, both in searching and in obedience! I know brethren whom I like to call: of the people of meaning. Wherefrom do they get their knowledge? I will tell you. Some of them have got it from seminaries. However, ...

In July of the year 2014, I asked “Gaza” for a date to meet up. Today, all of Palestine is answering the request. This pretty young girl was also overcome with her longings. No matter how many years you have been away from her, you will recognize her. You will recognize her by her word, ...

When Jesus asked His disciple Peter, after Pascha: “do you love me… Feed my lambs” (John 21: 15) — He revealed that, unless we love Him first, we cannot do any good thing in this world.