Only he who lives on earth treading in the steps of the saints can do anything.

Reading is a commitment. You benefit from it here, and you fail there. However, as a committed reader, you can, through books you choose or which choose you, expect the gifts that expand your horizon. This was my case while reading “the book of biography” of the thrice-blessed memory Father Elias Morcos, which was excellently ...

Two days ago, a young man, who works in a convenience store, was feeling sorry that, this year, he was unable to fast through Ramadan. I heard him saying that he had had to go to his town in Syria before the fast. His parents were ill and needed to be served, and they had ...

I have had enough! I abandoned the news bulletins which I had abandoned several times before. It used to sadden me, if I abandoned them before, as though I have broken up with a friend! This time, it was easier. I have really had enough. The news bulletins were one of my sources that helped ...

She called to wish me a happy feast. She dwelled at length on how sorry she was for her absence from the prayers of the Holy Week. Her voice was bleeding with grief. The most beautiful people are those who refuse to dwell away from the prayer of their Church! Then, she proceeded as if ...

This morning, I overheard a young man’s voice telling his father: “bless me, dad”. I am well acquainted with the word. This is the word of my friend Pierre, whom I grew up together with in the same neighborhood. Have I mentioned the word to you before? How can a word conjure up faces that ...

I was walking on the road, searching for something to write to you. The blind and the poor have faith that God is present in what they are asking for. I spared no one passing before me from fully examining him from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. I did ...

Before the feast, I called a brother physician, working abroad, who was, in the eighties of the last century, the leader of “a group in the Movement” in which I used to meet in one of the branches of Mount Lebanon Chapter. I asked him for a favor which one of our young men had ...

People have their differences. In our Church, we say that, if we keep the orthodox dogma, we can differ in any other thing. Is the fire, said to come out of Jesus’ grave on Great and Holy Saturday, really holy? This is a question raised by brethren among us. Is it a sin to raise ...

When Paul said: “be free from anxieties” (1 Corinthians 7:32), he wanted us to see that God is with us in all circumstances: in our sorrow and our joy, in our contentedness and our anger, in our pain and our health, in our peace and our anxiety… this is the experience of Pascha to those ...