When I set about writing the book “Bearing Witness Before the Church”, which is a reading in the third epistle of John, I was seized by the idea of not sending it for publication before I made a pilgrimage to the house of the Apostle in the city of Ephesus, and there, get to inhale ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
On Baptism
Before the Council of Nicaea (325), no book has reached us about any of the Church's sacraments, except for the book of Tertullian, the apologist: "On Baptism". Tertullian wrote this book in opposition to a heretic woman who was mocking the sacrament and the folly of some of those who have obtained it! He set ...
Read moreNothing
Most of the people by whom Satan likes to be hosted, to sip his morning coffee with, to amuse himself with their news, and to encourage them to do everything that pleases him, are those who regard themselves as something in their own eyes!
Read moreTo Keep the Commandments
If we review the Ten Commandments, especially those related to the neighbor, we notice that, in them, God calls us to renounce vice; namely: lying, adultery, killing, stealing… This is what prevails on earth. However, by exposing these commandments, God is not seeking to break us by recalling our weighty sins, but rather He is ...
Read moreThe Homeland
Every time a compatriot of ours tells me that he has set up a rendezvous with another homeland, that is that he will emigrate, he reaffirms that we, the peoples living in fragmented expanses, are connected with one ugly unity: we do not see our homelands as our own! What is the homeland? Semantically, it ...
Read moreDaring to Confess
An acquaintance of mine paid me a visit, and asked me to moderate his meeting with a mutual friend whom I know that he, that is my visitor, had wronged. I thanked him for his trust. However, I asked him that our meeting be imbued with frankness. He said: "It is not necessary for us ...
Read moreA Disgrace of a Homeland
A friend of mine showed me a footage of a nursery, in which some female employees were abusing infants, both verbally and in action. Does such kind of iniquity exist?! My friend confirmed that the video is authentic, and that the nursery, in which this vicious abuse took place (read it in the sense of ...
Read moreThe Knowledge of Words
I know the words. When they resist me, I wait for them. I am not greedy. All I expect from them is a few new lines. Today, the words have left me waiting for a long time. They were refusing to line up next to their friends. Clear lines are an assemblage of adjacent words ...
Read moreThe Widow’s Faith
These days, I am haunted by Jesus’ question: “when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). I knew that exegetes were divided over the meaning of what the Lord meant in His question. Some of them said that He meant that He would come again after apostasy ...
Read moreTo Father Luke Abdo
Those who came from the womb of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) do not lack the knowledge that the Church is the life of obedience to God. You remember that Metropolitan George Khodr, who saw in you what convinced him that you were born to serve God and His people, used to repeat to us ...
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