You might not notice that the rain is falling upon you from above before it falls from your own hand onto the barren lands you walk past each day. Everything changes within you when you truly realize that heaven is above you, and that it is benevolent first towards you and towards others, those of ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
The Song of Tears
I will not be contradicting my conviction that knowledge is not bound to a particular season if I call upon you and myself to devote more time to reading during Lent. All of life is for us to grow in our awareness that God is the Truth. Just as we have eliminated certain foods from ...
Read morePrayer
Lent is also meant for us to pray and to love, to grow in our prayer and our love, our love for the Lord and for the brethren, both the great ones and the least ones (Matthew 25:40). Today I will talk to you about prayer. Only he who truly prays is actually fasting. Prayer ...
Read moreEid Prelude
I read news on an electronic media outlet stating that over 60,000 worshippers carried out the Eid Al-Fitr prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque devoid of any festive atmosphere due to the ongoing aggression on Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Those who entered the mosque did so right before the eyes of a state that excels ...
Read moreThe Word of God
If obedience to the Word bestows a new life upon us, then every exhortation to read it becomes new. This allows me to tell you today also that we, in our Church, did not arrange the fasts to remain without food. During the fast, the Christian finds his sustenance in the Word that proceeds from ...
Read moreThe Testimony of Freedom
When one of the members of the strivers’ Church ever insults the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29), this causes damages to her life and her testimony. I am speaking of all the committed people, laymen, monks, deacons, priests, and bishops! Yesterday, I read news on an electronic media outlet about two monks, from an independent ...
Read moreGod is Love
When our tradition says that God loves the world, it means He loves all people at all times and in all conditions, without discriminating between one person and another, whether sinful or righteous. This is an essential aspect of the God portrayed in our Scriptures as: love (1 John 4:8), meaning a steadfast love that ...
Read morePeople's Salvation
He said to me: "Madness, if we remain silent about it, deems itself sane". I agreed with him on that statement. However, I told him, "When you break your silence, make sure to utter words that the insane can comprehend"! We have an obligation to demonstrate to people, whether through our silence or our speech, ...
Read moreA Battlefield for the Light
Lent is described in tradition as a battlefield for spiritual warfares. It serves as a ground to expose darkness and repent of it. It is both a battlefield and a weapon. The darkness that besieges us in our days, is summoned by Lent to its tribunal for scrutiny. Weariness, sloth, anger, and doubt through which ...
Read moreGuidance of the Faithful
I will speak to you without preamble. Some individuals in positions of influence over the lives of the faithful, both within our Church and elsewhere, hold peculiar or even bizarre beliefs! I will expose their stance on chastity, for example. I have heard rumors about certain priests (more than one of whom is from our ...
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