I was not there on the sixteenth of March of the year 1942. I had not seen anyone enter that hall in which the founding of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) was declared. My parents had to wait ten more years to meet each other, and another seven to give birth to me. I am ...

Father George Massouh refused to let me get into an electronic argument with anyone. After my outlook on this page became well-established, he told me once in front of some brethren at his house: “this is a space that is open on the world. Do not waste your breath arguing with anyone. My advice: he ...

Where did Angelus Silesius (+1677), the German priest and poet, dip his quill before he wrote: “… I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be”? Did he dip it in the story of the Virgin who became a mother to the great ...

I came to this social-media platform in a time dominated by bad language which spares neither senior nor junior. This was seven years ago. Some of my friends feared that my anger at the bad language might become the ink of these lines. God saves me. What helps me is my conviction that there are ...

I will confess something to you. I am one of those who do not give up the things that remind them of something. There are people who were once, close friends of mine. Even those whose relationship with me had changed, if they had left something which has significance to me, I do not give ...

Saint Seraphim of Sarov (+1833) was asked: “why do we no longer see nowadays the wonders of Grace which used to take place a lot in the past?”. He answered: “There is only one thing lacking today: a serious commitment (literally: a firm resolve)”. Did Saint Seraphim mean that, if we keep the requirements of ...

I was walking. You may have noticed. Since the pandemic has tightened its besiegement on us, I started favoring the inner roads in our area, for my walking. Seeing people, (exchanging) a word or two, a greeting from afar, break for me some of this suffocating siege. I saw it. It was lying there on ...

I grew up in a district where everything was permitted. Sins, before they are acts, are companionship! When the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) invited me to their meetings, some of them knew me. They all shared their apprehension of me! Then they found out that I was, for them, a treasure for ...