It has become an annual tradition for me to read, on days like these, Father Alexander Schmemann's book "The Great Lent". The book is of paramount importance, whether in terms of knowledge, as it pertains to the "Triodion period," or the author's ability to delve into our depths, in order to provide us with the ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
My Father Again
My father fell asleep, having nothing but God's mercy. I was a young lad when he hastened to God. He departed just as he had emerged from his mother's womb! Of what he had left behind, I still have two treasured items: a staff as tall as his arm which he occasionally wielded when leaving ...
Read moreIbrahim Barbour
I saw him in the hall of the “Church of the Mother of God of the Life-giving Spring” in the mid-eighties of the last century, standing alongside a few young people who had decided to embrace the engagements of the Word that always seeks to awaken us to understanding and the service of love. He ...
Read moreDoctrine and Life
On the Sundays of Lent, the Church urges us to focus on the two aspects of commitment, doctrine and life. What I want to emphasize today is that the ultimate purpose of this focus is to embrace orthodoxy regardless of circumstances. Nothing we know has any meaning if we do not believe that orthodoxy is ...
Read moreThe Loving Person
He who makes you feel suffocated by his concern for you, do not convince yourself that he loves you. The care of a loving person is quite different; you can truly discern him from the spaces of freedom he shares with you.
Read moreTake my hand
O God of mercy and life, do not leave me alone. Here You see me. This is me, all of me before You. You know what I need. I am weak and confused. Be my strength and my guidance. I do not want for myself any decision that You do not take with me, or ...
Read moreTo Resemble the Icon
Whenever I hear one of the brethren recounting about the person in charge of them in the church that he does not know anything but to criticize them, I hasten to ask him: “does he help you achieve what he is wishing for you?”. These words are not new to you. When God shows us ...
Read moreReality and the Hoped for
The book "Lights on Orthodox Reality and the Hoped for", published by "An-Nour Orthodox Cooperative", is, literally, the person who composed it, brother Raymond Rizk. I do not insist on this definition to confine the brother author to a book he published in 242 pages, but to say that, despite the weight of his years, ...
Read moreOn Orthodoxy
Two days ago, a friend of mine shared with me words she had taken from a homily by Metropolitan Athanasios Fahd of Latakia. One of them was: "The only thing Orthodoxy rejects is sin". The word captivated me. Is it the time, filled with voices of demonization, that made me a captive of what I ...
Read moreFather George Massouh
Father George, who left us six years ago, lived his life as a man who knows what he chooses and what he rejects. Today, I will not list all his known choices for you. I will content myself with two of them, namely: Antioch as the ground for his priesthood ministry, and the Orthodox Youth ...
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