Yesterday, the Lebanese abroad completed the second phase of the parliamentary elections, that is, the voting process. Today, I am not going to tell you about this event. The words of my eldest son, who voted with his wife yesterday, are still ringing in my ears, that is, his saying that: "Lebanon abroad is not ...
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“The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved”
Does this phrase, which was unique to John in his Gospel, mean that Jesus preferred a disciple over the others? You do know that the Apostle John, whom many scholars agree that he concealed himself behind this phrase, uses it, in his Gospel, five times: at the Last Supper (13:23), before the Cross (19:26), when ...
Read moreThe Communion of Prayer
The greatest thing a person does in life is to raise others to God. You may know that some of those who ask you to pray for them do not realize that it is communion, that is, they do not know that it is not a mere borrowing or a complete dependence on others. Never ...
Read moreGod as Father
We all grieve over the illness of someone we love; yet, little do we think of God Who grieves for us, if we get sick or broken by a weakness… “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick” (John 11:3). God loves us. I am speaking of this affection that unites us in Him as ...
Read moreThe Beautiful Story
One of the contemporary fathers wrote: “sometimes, an icon can be written for you, and at other times, a hateful story. We all combine this terrible contradiction”! When I read these words, I thought that their writer, when writing them, had borrowed his parlance from the Pharisee of the temple (Luke 18: 10-14). I do ...
Read moreThe Children of God
His word caught my attention. It was, eloquent, dripping with honey, and extremely realistic. He said, "he who gets bored of repeating the story, will not know how to read the Bible on a daily basis". I wrote down, on a piece of paper that I had with me, what I had heard. Are you ...
Read moreThe Rain of Great and Holy Friday
Nothing matters to some Christians in our country, from this or that Church, more than that it rains on Great and Holy Friday. What shall I tell you of their happiness, if it rains on their Friday? If it rains, they fill the world with joy and noise, they even seize God by considering that ...
Read moreThe Paschal Greeting
What does a man, who has not entered the Church once after his baptism, mean when he tells you with remarkable enthusiasm: “Christ is risen!”? Christ is indeed risen. However, is the issue of His resurrection verbal, that is, formal? You do understand. Christians, when they greet one another with the tidings of Pascha, are ...
Read moreThe Upcoming Elections
What are we being told before the parliamentary elections, which are expected to take place in the middle of this month? Many things are said that can be summed up in one word: “let us prepare ourselves, freely, for the elections”. That the election process be considered a national duty, this concerns every citizen who ...
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Today, Metropolitan Silouan Moussi hosted, in the beautiful village of “Al-Qusaybeh”, the meeting of the brethren members of the Orthodox Youth Movement in Mount Lebanon (MJO) on the feast of their local chapter. The meeting began with the Divine Liturgy, during which the beloved brother Tony Abdo was ordained a deacon. The brethren in the ...
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