In order to fulfill its purpose, dialogue, in whatever matter, requires us to have several attributes. For instance, it requires us to be: “1- free people within whom the interests of the world do not resonate; 2- people for all; 3- people who give precedence to the common good above everything that we think is ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
Loving Reform
My father hated lying the same way he hated blindness. Have I told you this before? He used to regard it as cowardice or as a rejection of reform. I bring back memories of my father from a distant past. I make him seem as if he is attached to God and His mind. Were ...
Read moreA Solution in Our Hands!
When I write about Lebanon, I have come to expect you to turn a blind eye to my lines. For Lebanon to become a true homeland for us, this, for most of us, is a dream preserved for a tomorrow to come. I have not given up on my optimism. In spite of my admitting ...
Read moreTo the Leaders of the "Christian Parties
The Church is a fraternal society in which we are all one. There are dilemmas that contradict this unity in Lebanon, of which I will mention two. The first relates to the request that you be mentioned publicly, in some Church services, whether you attend or send a representative on your behalf. The fault in ...
Read moreGood People
Those we see, every day, on the roads of this life, are those whom God has sent to us in order to serve them. Without this conviction, doing good becomes, for many people, an indefinitely well-kept dream. Good people, who do not fit in the world, are living right here, right now.
Read more“The Priest's Livelihood”
This is a phrase that I have extracted from the last statement of the Antiochian Synod. Those who have read the statement do not miss that, like some of its fellow phrases, it is a rushed phrase that does not carry any detail or direction or order to the Churches. Do not be surprised that ...
Read moreUpwards
I saw him with my own eyes. Years had passed since his emigration. I did not know he was here. It is him. He has not changed. He was sitting in the middle of the Church, among the congregation, participating in the funeral of a mutual friend of ours. After the service, I offered my ...
Read moreA Servant to the Lord of Glory
A few days ago, His Beatitude Patriarch John issued a decree appointing His Eminence Metropolitan Antonios El Souri, Metropolitan of Zahle, the bride of Bekaa, and of Baalbek and Dependencies, as Patriarchal Vicar of the Archdiocese of New York and All North America. This is a significant decision for a number of reasons, two of ...
Read moreMy Daughter
There are occasions, related to stations in my life, that my daughter retains entirely. Whether my daughter is in Lebanon or abroad (as she is nowadays), whatever her preoccupations, she does not allow any occasion to pass silently without talking to me about it. On the occasion she thinks she should congratulate me on, she ...
Read moreThe Work of Us All
The statement, which was issued by the fathers of the Antiochian Synod at the conclusion of their last meeting, magnifies the question about the believers who are concerned about their Churches today. Who of the believers today, in our Church and elsewhere, is really concerned about his Church? I am not concealing from you. I ...
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