I have no food that makes me to be fond of it. I do not claim being abstentious. I have thus spent my whole life. Today, I have changed. I started liking things, some things that are liked by little children who have stolen my heart from me. I do not mean to underestimate anything ...

My wife was standing in front of the bookcase in our house. She asked me to help her find a book she had named to me. My eyes fell on Metropolitan George Khodr’s book: “This World is not Enough” (An-Nahar Publications 2006) in which he was interviewed by Samir Farhat. The book is not new ...

I was not there on the sixteenth of March of the year 1942. I had not seen anyone enter that hall in which the founding of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) was declared. My parents had to wait ten more years to meet each other, and another seven to give birth to me. I am ...

Father George Massouh refused to let me get into an electronic argument with anyone. After my outlook on this page became well-established, he told me once in front of some brethren at his house: “this is a space that is open on the world. Do not waste your breath arguing with anyone. My advice: he ...

Where did Angelus Silesius (+1677), the German priest and poet, dip his quill before he wrote: “… I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be”? Did he dip it in the story of the Virgin who became a mother to the great ...

I came to this social-media platform in a time dominated by bad language which spares neither senior nor junior. This was seven years ago. Some of my friends feared that my anger at the bad language might become the ink of these lines. God saves me. What helps me is my conviction that there are ...

I will confess something to you. I am one of those who do not give up the things that remind them of something. There are people who were once, close friends of mine. Even those whose relationship with me had changed, if they had left something which has significance to me, I do not give ...

Saint Seraphim of Sarov (+1833) was asked: “why do we no longer see nowadays the wonders of Grace which used to take place a lot in the past?”. He answered: “There is only one thing lacking today: a serious commitment (literally: a firm resolve)”. Did Saint Seraphim mean that, if we keep the requirements of ...