The Apostle’s saying, “flee sexual immorality” (1 Corinthians 6:18), which is read by the Church on the “Prodigal Son Sunday”, reminds me of the All Comely Joseph who had fled from his master’s wife who wanted him for herself (Genesis 39). This allows us to believe that, from the days of preparation for the fast ...

He who loves money, cannot possibly have, in the temples of his brain, a place for human feelings! I will give you, as an example of that, what happened in Lazarus’ house on one of these similar days. There, Jesus was hosted by Lazarus and his two sisters. The joy was great, in the house ...

Great Lent is an openness towards eternity, a restoration of the time that was broken by Adam. God had created Man to live forever. Adam sinned. He became mortal. His sin had broken his time; it became finite. This is what Christ is come to heal us from. Fasting came to be so that we ...

The theologian is a theologian wherever he may be. Theology flows out of him. You see it. You touch it. You hear it, whether he speaks in the Church or at home, or on the road… Once, Father Thomas Hopko (+2015) stopped a taxi. On the way, the taxi driver asked him: “are you a ...

This is the time to call down for gifts for the public good. The best that is done by a man, who strives for the good, is for him to remind himself constantly, in an acceptable and in an unacceptable time, that he is a servant who “does what is his duty to do” (Luke ...

Friday morning, I woke up to a pain in my back. I know the pain, a nasty pain that overpowers me in winter, in the cold; a pain that deprives me of what flexibility is left for me in my back, that folds me in two, whether I stand up or sit down. I set ...

If you are really looking for someone to heal our public or our personal history for us, as individuals and as communities, do not waste your breath in looking. Do one single thing. Lift up your eyes. There is one person who is capable of accomplishing this miracle for us, Jesus Who came to us ...

I have no food that makes me to be fond of it. I do not claim being abstentious. I have thus spent my whole life. Today, I have changed. I started liking things, some things that are liked by little children who have stolen my heart from me. I do not mean to underestimate anything ...

My wife was standing in front of the bookcase in our house. She asked me to help her find a book she had named to me. My eyes fell on Metropolitan George Khodr’s book: “This World is not Enough” (An-Nahar Publications 2006) in which he was interviewed by Samir Farhat. The book is not new ...