I have not told you about her before. I am sorry. “Madame Annette” reposed at the beginning of the year 2005. She was a friend to all those to whom Metropolitan George Khodr was a friend: the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO); bishops; priests; seminarians; the poor of Antioch… The woman is reminiscent of the women ...

Once, Socrates saw in the marketplace many things that were displayed for sale. Do you know what was his comment? He said: “How many are the things I can do without”. Philosophers! Contentment is a treasure. Not too long ago, many of us were living a life of greed. For young and old, life consisted ...

Yesterday, at ten o’clock at night, I met, online, with brethren, with whom we had been brought together by the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Mount Lebanon, back in the eighties of the last century. Some of them are scattered in Lebanon, and some others are now in the United States and Canada. Most of ...

Along the course of my commitment, I had been seized by many polemics pertaining to your movement. The fate of the “teaching”, within groups of different churches, used to make my head spin. I was late in perceiving that the Spirit of God can always initiate in us the Word which “would gather together in ...

Those who anticipate Christ “to sit on the throne of His glory” today, you should believe them if they told you that, yesterday, before the empty tomb, they have met angels who told them that Jesus is alive! The people of Pascha are those who are tightly drawn to the end!

Our Ascetic tradition recommends to the novice monk to flee from two: the bishop and the woman. Can we, priests, accept this recommendation as well? If our life consisted of obedience and ministry, how would it be for us? We have its spirit. Our ministry, or any other ministry, cannot be right without fleeing, fleeing ...

Since I was a young lad, I thought it best to watch the motion pictures along with others. I have no trouble connecting the events with one another. My flaw is that, when I sit to watch a movie, I do not stick to it, but I allow other thoughts to capture me! This, if ...

Of the words that capture my heart, is the word of Joel the prophet: “Let the weak say: I am strong” (3:10). I know the context in which the verse was said. I would not be ignoring its contents if I said: “I have spent my whole life regarding as hideous he who takes advantage ...

For Man to reveal the face of God to the Man his brother, this is one of the mysteries of the Holy Spirit. How can this mystery possibly be fulfilled without an encounter? Am I encouraging you today to deny the threat of the disease? Life is a responsibility. I am aware that there is ...

Scriptures consist of their meaning. Blessed are they who have been taken by the beauty of meaning, both in searching and in obedience! I know brethren whom I like to call: of the people of meaning. Wherefrom do they get their knowledge? I will tell you. Some of them have got it from seminaries. However, ...