During your day, bow your head to God for some of the time you bow it to your phone. Do not toss this suggestion away. This call is for all of us to give God, at all times, some of our time. The phone logs the time we spend on it. Determine how long, out ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
We are Still on the Way
The question of Saint John Climacus: “Why in the case of every other sin do we usually say that people have slipped, and simply that; but when we hear that someone has committed fornication, we say sorrowfully: So and so has fallen?” (15:44), confirms my conviction that the entire Great Lent is a call to ...
Read moreFools for Christ’s Sake
During Lent, we hold, on Wednesday evening and Friday morning, a communion service that we call the Presanctified Liturgy. Like every communal service, this cannot be carried out by the priest alone. He needs brethren to participate in carrying it out, among them at least, a chanter, a reader, and an altar servant. I know ...
Read moreAppointments with Glory
Lent is an icon of commitment. One of the things it requires us to be strong in is that we are a bridge to God. There are always people around us who do not care about God or who are limping in their commitment to Him. I am talking today about those who are our ...
Read moreHaving Mercy on Others
He who is incapable of having mercy on others, whose guilt has been confirmed to him, cannot be aware of what he means by saying: “Lord, have mercy”. To ask for mercy for ourselves, is something that presupposes that we seek to be healed of this reprehensible disability. You know the saying: “whoever has, to ...
Read moreThe Newness of Jesus
He who knows something about the meanings of the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father Who art in heaven) does not miss that, in it, Jesus has called on us to break the distance which God had broken between Himself and us. This is not revealed only by His calling on us that with boldness we may ...
Read moreA Better Day
I had told you, before, about the culture of the beautiful girls May, Mira, and Marianne Mitri. The older two gifted me with three novels. I was tardy in “unwrapping the gift” for a purpose I adopt in reading. I will tell you. In my house I have a bookcase in which I put the ...
Read morePagnol Taught Me
Before I read French writer Marcel Pagnol’s novel “My Mother’s Castle” (Le Château de ma Mère), I had no idea that the snake eats at widely spaced intervals (Pagnol says: “once a month”, page 75). This is an ignorance that has been entrenched in me by my distancing myself from all that pertains to the ...
Read moreOf the Striving of the Coptic Church
I am amazed at the effort exerted by the Coptic Church in electronic (and paper) publishing. What is remarkable about this publication is that it is open to the thought of the Churches of the whole world. To lay before the eyes of your people what originated with others in whom you trust, this means ...
Read moreOverwhelming Words!
I parked my car far away from the hospital, where regular check-ups were awaiting me, and I started walking. This was a few days ago. Before I arrived, I entered a church adjoining the hospital, which used to call me to enter every time I passed by its door that is always open during the ...
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