We have reached the end. You do know that this day, Holy Saturday, is, historically, a favorable day for the baptism of new believers. Why does the beginning (baptism) take place at the end? Today’s event, that is, the theme of today’s feast (Descent into Hades), reveals that baptism is a communion with Christ’s death ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Victory of Love
A God Who dies, this is the manifestation of love in the world. God’s ever-bleeding wound lies in the fact that we all have not understood that He is love. Most people, absolutely most of them, if they go through a hardship, still hasten to incriminate Him. God, the God of the world, is accused ...
Read moreStrength in Weakness
O Jesus, will you allow me to enter the upper room, home of the water and the Word Which is seeking someone to follow its example. Your Word is open to the entire world. John the Evangelist, Your beloved, who was the only one to write down the story of Your washing the feet of ...
Read moreJudas’ Faction
The sin, from which Lent calls us to flee, is that we prefer what we know about God over God Himself. We have not really understood that our hearts were created to beat with His love alone. Consider it carefully. Most of us see the good that we do as an extension of God, or ...
Read moreTen Virgins
Most people do not know that the cemeteries are in us. If you ask about them, they still direct you to the outskirts of their villages or to special places in the cities. Most people are unaware that the greatest cemetery is in my belief that, in life, I exist for myself. The story of ...
Read moreJoseph the All-Comely
Commitment consists of faithfulness. I am reiterating the perception of the elders in our Church. Their life is the beacon, the eloquent language that guides to God, the goal of our life in the present and the future. You see them together, each of them coming from the God Who is in the others. Their ...
Read moreBlessed is He Who Comes
We drew closer to Pascha. Pascha has been with us since the beginning of Lent. Its scent adhered to everything, to what it requires, to its prayers, to its topics, to the brethren’s faces, to the saints who were implanted in it. We do not believe that we, on our own, are capable of achieving ...
Read moreLazarus
The feast of the raising of Lazarus, celebrated by the Church in the past on this day, was one of the four days on which the qualified catechumens used to receive the sacrament of baptism. Two things are essential in the celebration of this feast: the first is that the position of the feast seems ...
Read moreA Man of Obedience
Today, Metropolitan Saba Esper took off for America. He carried with him our love and prayers, and followed the decision of the Antiochian Synod to serve his new Archdiocese. His departure from us is anguish that can only be healed by our knowledge that all the faithful in the expanse of his new ministry, old ...
Read moreSigns of the Divine Love
I hold fast to a story that does not leave us in the Lenten prayers, namely, the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). There are three signs of divine love that are manifest in the father’s stances in the story. The first sign is that, when the younger son asked for “the portion of ...
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