In order for the words about God and about life with Him to cut to the hearts of people, it is needful that they see us sleeping and rising on God’s love. No words are truer than love.
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Arab Reading Challenge
I am writing today about this initiative which was launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in the year 2015. The aim of this initiative is to motivate students, in the schools of the Arab world, to increase their awareness of their language and to concern themselves over reading which develops culture… This challenge ...
Read moreThe Church is a Hospital
The world is in crisis. This was left behind by the pandemic, the economic erosion and the wars…! I did not overlook the mention of sins. I consider that the devastation they leave behind in us needs no mention. How does the world heal? This is a question which presumes that we remember that Man, ...
Read moreThe Responsible Person
If the real responsible person, in the Church or in the world, talks about people’s tribulation, he does not settle for describing their conditions. I can give multiple examples of our forgoing this reality in responsible positions. However, the word is straightforward. The responsible person always transcends the description to the commands of action. We ...
Read moreA Door for Work
They were companions of the same age, gathered in the Church hall. They were all around ten years old. I approached them, greeted them and asked them: “what do you want to do when you grow up?”. They gave me various answers. One of them confidently said: "I want to become a writer"! Her answer ...
Read moreA Word to Christians
I am singling you out with these quick lines. It is not my concern to set you apart from our other peers whom I love as much as I love you, but rather to remind you of your heritage without which we have no salvation. I do not think there is a heritage in the ...
Read moreThe Social Solicitude
I was struck by brother Rami Hosni’s article: “The Movement and the Social Solicitude” with which “An-Nour Magazine” opened its last issue. The basis of the article is that its writer saw, in the effort of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in social service, a faithfulness to the legacy of the great Fathers, and he ...
Read moreThe Meaning of Joy
Nothing indicates that we really know the meaning of joy, and that we even deserve joy, if we do not live in unity with the others in all circumstances, in sadness as well as in joy.
Read moreTo Be Fertile
When a tiring virus whips away your voice, you find yourself in solitude. You do not believe that you are a world for yourself. Your belief is that, from the beginning, Man is extended towards God and people. Does the transient silence, upon which we have not decided, carry a call for us to decide ...
Read moreMaggy Mahmoud
Yesterday, Maggy Mahmoud rushed to leave her public school in Tripoli. She did not leave it, as usual, to her parents’ home, rather, she was betrayed by the neglect of a country that grew old before maturing! Neglect has snatched a sixteen-year-old girl from the bosom of youth and from the eyes of her parents ...
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