A close friend, whose eyes look for news of joy, sent me a piece of news of the American University of Beirut granting “the prolific writer” Elias Khoury an honorary doctorate. This is eloquent news that should not be read in a hurry. An American university is proud to recognize the ascent, on the paths ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Better Lebanon
There is no country like Lebanon that teaches you to “fend for yourself”: in your health safety; in your children’s education; in water and electricity, and in your commute… Do not expect from the country, that is, those who are supposed to rule it, to help you in anything. It is preoccupied with many things, ...
Read moreThe Living Homily
The Saints’ setting off for the path of commitment is a Word for obedience, and their ending is a Word that narrates fluently and freely, without anyone’s permission, the glorious deeds of the Holy Spirit working in them. This is what was evoked in me through my reading of the awaited book: “Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, ...
Read moreFeast of All Saints
It is the feast of the active revelation that God wanted all Mankind with Him in His Kingdom. He who looks closely at the feast, especially in its ecclesial position, falling on the first Sunday after Pentecost, will notice, with no effort, that, through it, the Church intended to confirm her awareness that, while on ...
Read moreStruggle of the Saints
The true believer is he who lives in the struggle of the Saints: he finds God, and he keeps looking for Him. This is the yearning of the soul to eternity.
Read moreThe Troparion of Pentecost
The troparion of Pentecost (Blessed are You, O Christ our God…) takes me back to the faces of the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Beirut, to their very old house in “the little mountain” that used to bring us together in the eighties of the last century. At the onset of my ...
Read moreThe Pastoring Church
The ecclesial life consists of caring. For many brethren, the word means that they always have someone to care for them. In this sense, the word is correct, no doubt. Nevertheless, it is dangerous, at the same time. It is correct, the reason is well-known. The human being who always finds someone to care for ...
Read moreWe Are Our Language!
It is not true that our alienation from this expanse occurs only because of our political conditions and the like (economic and security…). Very often, we alienate ourselves in our own countries, in rightful and unrightful forms. I am not talking today about this fatal neutrality in the face of the madness of our homelands, ...
Read moreThe Fruit of the Holy Spirit
I had to lead a weekly group that brings me together with some brethren most of whom are married. I chose for myself to comment on the words of the Apostle to the Ephesians 6:1-4. The readers of the epistle know that Paul has prefaced his words on marriage and then on the family by ...
Read moreJesus
My friend Riad Mofarrij once told me, in a meeting that brought us together, that he hardly ever hears from Church pulpits, priests uttering the name of Jesus in their homilies. This is a piece of news open for public scrutiny. He did not literally say that the mention of Jesus indicates that the pulpit ...
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