On the evening of August 4, 2020, I was in the church. The explosion, that boomed out, seemed to me as if it was happening in my office, where I was waiting for the time when we arise to “the Supplication to the Theotokos”. I went up to the church looking for the source of ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
Good News
It is a piece of good news. I had told you about one of my priest friends who was offered eighty thousand dollars a year by a congregation abroad in order to leave us to serve it, and he had refused. I know some of his arguments with himself before he refused. However, he strengthened ...
Read moreReading and Writing
Before I set out to visit my son in the country which I have repeatedly described as “faraway and cold”, I thought about the days that I will be spending there. The idea that pressed on me was to record my diary in it, day by day. However, I backed away from anything that would ...
Read moreNew Travel
I have never included in my life program to travel for days or for weeks, until I was over fifty years old. This was due to my being immersed in a work that still takes hold of me, and to my conviction that Man is capable of traveling in his place! Let me tell you. ...
Read moreTo Complete the Ministry
For my words today, as an example of Jesus’ devoting Himself to serve people, I will consider the event of feeding the multitudes in the wilderness (Matthew 14: 14-21). You know. The multitudes followed Jesus for more than one purpose. What happened after a long day is that His disciples suggested that He should send ...
Read moreTravel
Tomorrow at dawn, my wife and I will leave Lebanon to spend, with my son and his family, at their house, in the “faraway country”, several weeks which were determined by some known factors as well as some other private ones. I suggested to my friends, the administrators of the page, that I stop writing ...
Read moreA Ministry Free of Anxiety
Today, I do not have in mind to talk about this insolent companion, namely: anxiety. What I have in mind is to pass on to you an advice given by one of the priests to the servants in the churches. It is a general call to a “ministry free of anxiety” that will benefit us ...
Read moreThe Mother First
It is a word that I repeat for the good of us all, in whatever position we may be. It is about time, in our churches, that we repent of individuality and improvisation. We are here, in this expanse whose emptying is required, and which is the origin of the Christian dissemination throughout the entire ...
Read moreReinforcement of Uniqueness
Yesterday, my son and his wife left their youngest daughter, “Naї”, at night, under my wife’s care. This is a well-known passionate love for her to take care of any of our grandchildren. This is the first time that the baby sleeps with us at home. I saw, on her face, anxiety that is known ...
Read moreThe Secret of Freedom
It is extremely difficult to talk about the freedom of the human being in this contradictory world. I do not want to embarrass myself or embarrass you. You do know that, ecclesiastically, we believe that every human being is, by nature, free. God has created us free, in His own image. However, we all know ...
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