I read with interest your article in which you told us about “the little girl” who had missed you in the old souk of Batroun, in the place where you used to display, at a nominal price, books for both the poor and the rich. A friend of mine read it on the Bazar Du ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Secret of Love!
To be well-established in the fact that love is acceptance, the acceptance of those who love us or who love no one, this is the secret of love in its horizontal dimension. To love is to love others with the beauty that we see in them and the beauty that we do not see, with ...
Read moreA Prayer in the Midst of Destruction
O God, God of our salvation, help us with Your tenderness to have this wrath pass away from us. I believe that You are always present with us. I beseech You. Our homelands are already destroyed. For decades, death has been enslaving us as if it were the absolute master! I honestly tell You that, ...
Read moreTestifying to Mercy
Do not believe an arrogant person, if he talks to you about God and His gifts, that he believes in what he says. Only those who are in need of mercy are they who testify that the source of the life-giving goodness is God alone.
Read moreA Sun in Winter
Yesterday, some friends told me that, these days, they are attending to helping some needy brethren who do not leave their villages during winter, to face the cold. Only those who love, who understood very well that we are all one family, are the ones who fight the cold in others. I remember my mother ...
Read moreA Writer's Diary
It is a great book by the great writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who went to God one hundred and forty-two years ago. I do not mean only that the book is large in its number of pages (681 pages of large size), but first of all by the vigor of its author in all the ideas ...
Read moreA Word for Every Day
Today, my eldest son sent me a picture of a Gospel text in which Jesus speaks about the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and the end times (Luke 21). He did not attach any inquiry or caption to the picture. He left me to guess, on my own, that he was embroiled in a ...
Read moreThe Face of a God
Yesterday, I received a number of messages and calls on my phone. People have been awake, since dawn, in sadness and anxiety over the world and its fate. The earthquake, the aftershocks of which have reached Lebanon from Turkey, did not prevent some friends from engaging in questioning about what this and that of them ...
Read moreDisaster at Dawn
Today at dawn, a natural disaster hit many regions in Turkey and Syria. Some of its repercussions reached us in Lebanon, along with a fear that is eloquent in reminding us that all life is fading away. People were here, and have departed. People had gone to bed in peace, and have risen to losses ...
Read moreThe Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee
When I was young, on winter nights, my mother used to seat us, my sister and I, next to her, cover us with her blanket, and indulge with us in story-telling. Before being their very topics, stories are, for those who were, like me, comforted by them, a person who loves you. The benefits of ...
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