I was walking. You may have noticed. Since the pandemic has tightened its besiegement on us, I started favoring the inner roads in our area, for my walking. Seeing people, (exchanging) a word or two, a greeting from afar, break for me some of this suffocating siege. I saw it. It was lying there on ...

I grew up in a district where everything was permitted. Sins, before they are acts, are companionship! When the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) invited me to their meetings, some of them knew me. They all shared their apprehension of me! Then they found out that I was, for them, a treasure for ...

I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here ...

I am laying aside the pandemic, and tracking the diseases it is leaving behind in our homes. For over a year, people have been living in a closed world. Early in the lockdown in Lebanon, I had called you as well as myself, in hasty lines, to benefit from our staying together in our homes. ...

Do not accept a matter that will drown you in a sea of worry. Always remind yourself that what worries us today, God had already helped us to get out of a similar matter, the day before. Nothing strengthens our souls against difficulties that face us, like remembering that we hold an experience of victory. ...

Salwa Hanna has summed up all the love in her comment on lines that were written in tribute to His Holiness Pope Francis who has bid farewell to Iraq today. She said: “I miss Baghdad. I wish the Pope would take me with him”. The yearning of the child in us never slumbers. Lebanon’s media ...

I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here ...

In the mid-third century, the Roman empire carried out a great persecution against the Church, which lasted for years. Many were martyred, while others apostatized openly. After the persecution subsided, those who lapsed asked that the Church grant them forgiveness. The faithful got divided in their respect. Some accepted them immediately. Some ruled that their ...

In his book “From Miziara to Washington”, Sarkis Naoum recounted that Mr Ghassan Tueni had told them that, in his early adulthood, he wrote an article he considered to be great, and handed it to his father. His father took the article, tore it to pieces, and threw it in the waste basket. Then he ...