On the last Great Thursday, the Church of Alexandria ordained Ms. Angelic Molen to the diaconate. This step, which some of us described as bold, I would like us to see it as natural, even centuries overdue! A friend of mine, who initially shared the news with me, showed me a photo of our Patriarch, ...
Read moreThomas Sunday
The Gospel passage read by our Church today on Thomas Sunday recounts two appearances of the risen Jesus (John 20:19-31). In the first appearance, Jesus reveals Himself alive to the disciples’ assembly, then in the second to Thomas, who was absent during the first appearance. Let us reflect a little on this salvific event. Why ...
Read moreThe Creativity of Baptism
The Spirit has inscribed upon each of us in our baptism that we belong to Him, to Him alone, for the building and flourishing of His Church and for the service of witness on earth. Creativity lies in faithfulness to what the Spirit has inscribed.
Read moreTo Nadim Salloum
Tomorrow, His Eminence Metropolitan Silouan Moussi will ordain you as a deacon in our beautiful church in "Downtown Bhamdoun". Oh the joy of your father and mother! It is not my place to advise you with words, for you were raised on more eloquent ones in a household from which many among us seek guidance ...
Read moreSudden Death
Today, I offered my condolences for a brother who has passed away suddenly. "Not long ago, they were with me, and today they have departed ". You know that in our Church, we pray for the Lord to deliver us from "sudden death". One of the deceased brother's siblings told me that his brother's death ...
Read moreJudas' Way
The word recorded for us by Matthew about what Judas the betrayer did with Jesus in Gethsemane as a sign of his handing him over to the Jews: "Greetings, Rabbi!, and kissed him” (26:49), crushes me. Greetings and a kiss in the service of crime! It is the world's disgrace for love's eyes to be ...
Read moreNoah's Ark
The forty-day lenten fast existed to put our inner house in order; our house, meaning our hearts and lives in Christ, in all their details and intricacies. The fast, now concluded, was founded upon three things: asceticism, Word, and offerings. These are our provisions after the feast; rather, they are our "Noah's Ark" in this ...
Read morePascha is With You
Two days ago, I asked about what remains for us of Lent after we reach Pascha. My answer was that the spirit of Lent is our life which we spend with the power of Pascha. Christianity encompasses two dimensions of commitment, one communal and one individual. One does not cancel the other out, and the ...
Read morePascha
Following Jesus' crucifixion and burial for three days, some women proclaimed that the Lord appeared to them alive (Matthew 28:9-10) and instructed them to tell His disciples to meet Him in Galilee. This is a universal call to all of Jesus' brethren and disciples in every generation. Galilee not only reminds us of "the first ...
Read moreGreat (Illumination) Saturday
Lent was a journey to the Light. After today, what remains of it for us? To carry with us what He had graciously bestowed upon us, meaning to live our entire lives with Pascha set before us. The Holy Fathers have depicted, with definite eloquence, that, during Great Lent, we are journeying to Pascha with ...
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