I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here ...
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The Pope in Iraq
Who will be welcoming Pope Francis tomorrow in “the land of Abraham”? The torn apart, plundered, red Iraq…, the door of which most Christians have slammed behind them, what will this visit say to it, and to them? The optimistic statistics estimate the number of the remaining Christians, today in Iraq, at around two hundred ...
Read moreStraight Talk
I am laying aside the pandemic, and tracking the diseases it is leaving behind in our homes. For over a year, people have been living in a closed world. Early in the lockdown in Lebanon, I had called you as well as myself, in hasty lines, to benefit from our staying together in our homes. ...
Read moreAn Experience of Victory
Do not accept a matter that will drown you in a sea of worry. Always remind yourself that what worries us today, God had already helped us to get out of a similar matter, the day before. Nothing strengthens our souls against difficulties that face us, like remembering that we hold an experience of victory. ...
Read moreThe Pope of the Word,pop Francis,faces
Salwa Hanna has summed up all the love in her comment on lines that were written in tribute to His Holiness Pope Francis who has bid farewell to Iraq today. She said: “I miss Baghdad. I wish the Pope would take me with him”. The yearning of the child in us never slumbers. Lebanon’s media ...
Read moreThe Fast of the Word
I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here ...
Read moreThe Unity of the Church
In the mid-third century, the Roman empire carried out a great persecution against the Church, which lasted for years. Many were martyred, while others apostatized openly. After the persecution subsided, those who lapsed asked that the Church grant them forgiveness. The faithful got divided in their respect. Some accepted them immediately. Some ruled that their ...
Read moreA Fatherly Advice
In his book “From Miziara to Washington”, Sarkis Naoum recounted that Mr Ghassan Tueni had told them that, in his early adulthood, he wrote an article he considered to be great, and handed it to his father. His father took the article, tore it to pieces, and threw it in the waste basket. Then he ...
Read moreThe Remedy of Lebanon
I was brought up to the Lebanon, with which I am content, in the regions of Mazraa Beirut and Bourj Hammoud districts. Both regions were open to the Lebanon of diversity. I was born in “Mazraa” (literally: the farm). I left it as a five-year old child, and grew up in “Bourj” (literally: the tower). ...
Read moreThe Meeting of Love
Following Saturday’s Liturgy, Father Nehme Saliba, who had recently recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, said: “yesterday, our friend (…) had a PCR test to detect the Coronavirus, the result of which was positive. I am going to see him. I will carry to him the body and blood of the Lord”. Two young men who ...
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