The words of Saint John Chrysostom: “the poor exist for the salvation of the rich”, are calling on all the Churches, in the East and the West, to include them in their collective and individual prayers. For the believer, prayer is a good source for doing good; it is our guide for our life to ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
Salim Baz
Yesterday, I watched, online, a scene from the graduation ceremony of my friend Salim Baz as a Doctor in Finance from a university in London. This event concerns me for several reasons, of which I will mention two. The first is the insistence of this brilliant young man that the scope of his academic work ...
Read moreChrist of the Ozarks
A theologian minister in the West told about his visit to the huge and towering “Christ of the Ozarks” statue, which is installed on a hill in Eureka Springs, Arkinsas, USA. He mentioned two things, his excitement about visiting the beautiful city, and next, his shock that the statue, representing Christ Who triumphed over death, ...
Read moreOur Good
No child, in this world, deserves to be grieved over his parents’ quarrels. Outright quarrels kill the soul. I know children for whom the passage of time was not helpful for recovering from this trauma. You all know this; those who insist on quarrelling know it just as the people of peace know it. How ...
Read moreMy friend Mohammad
Before Lebanon entered into a crazy war in 1975, Sudan, with its white goodness, was present among us in the novels of Al-Tayyib Salih and the poetry of Muhammad al-Fayturi… and in some of its people who come to Beirut seeking work or education. Like faces, things change. Yet, wars do not end. Today, Sudan ...
Read morePeace and Joy
Pascha is to be extended. The question: how do I live in a Paschal way?, cannot be answered except by reflecting on what was said in the prayers of the feast. I will remind you firstly that the believer attends the divine service, whatever its occasion, that is, he prepares himself for it, and then, ...
Read moreAwareness of the Elders
Only the elders in the land are aware that the testimony to God cannot be preserved by fawning over the shrines of the world, whatever their thrones may be.
Read moreA Path to the Best
There is nothing more difficult than honesty when it urges us to reform ourselves. It is of the ingenuity of the traditional Churches that they practice the sacrament of repentance and confession. I say to my friends that “if we tell the priest our confessor about a sin we have committed, we accept him if ...
Read moreThe Wealth of the World
Do not make a thief think you are one of his rivals! I am not alleviating the crime of theft, but rather I am exalting our responsibility for spreading the culture of life on earth. How does the thief know that theft is killing others? If we give him up to dull ideas in which ...
Read moreDr. Elie Aramouni
Something broke in me when I knew that Dr. Elie Aramouni has prepared his departure to God. People are One Body in Christ. I like to interpret this by saying that, with his departure, I lost a great support. I recall him the day my wife fell ill in 2008. He was one of a ...
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