My friend Elias Baz told me that the brethren in “The Renewal in the Holy Spirit Movement” do not bring a brother to a leadership position before the community leaders meet with him, and discuss with him about what they see as new and as old in him. This piece of news reveals two major ...
Read moreThe Enduring Lebanon
The day before yesterday, we bid farewell to my daughter, who had spent three days among us. She said that this visit is a compensation for the Christmas visit that she will spend, God willing, at the house of her older brother, who was pushed out of Lebanon, along with his family, by the Beirut ...
Read moreTo the Feast
I love, in this “little fast”, the Nativity fast, that it is great in its depicting the requisites of this forty-day period of the liturgical year, that is, in its revealing publicly the insistence of the Church that we implant, “in our flesh and blood”, to be in need of the coming Jesus. Take heed ...
Read moreThe Nativity Fast
Tomorrow, in our Church, begins another forty-day fast that is named after the feast of Nativity. If compared to Great Lent, this fast will be considered lightened in form, that is, in spite of our abstinence, in it, from meat and its by-products, we are allowed to eat fish, except on Wednesdays and Fridays. Are ...
Read moreDissension from the Word
When they explain the Apostle Paul’s words: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7), some people dissent from God’s intent. They say that “the true believer” is inevitably, that is, always, stronger than any “psychological disorder”! You do not ...
Read moreWords of Love
In order for the words about God and about life with Him to cut to the hearts of people, it is needful that they see us sleeping and rising on God’s love. No words are truer than love.
Read moreThe Arab Reading Challenge
I am writing today about this initiative which was launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in the year 2015. The aim of this initiative is to motivate students, in the schools of the Arab world, to increase their awareness of their language and to concern themselves over reading which develops culture… This challenge ...
Read moreThe Church is a Hospital
The world is in crisis. This was left behind by the pandemic, the economic erosion and the wars…! I did not overlook the mention of sins. I consider that the devastation they leave behind in us needs no mention. How does the world heal? This is a question which presumes that we remember that Man, ...
Read moreThe Responsible Person
If the real responsible person, in the Church or in the world, talks about people’s tribulation, he does not settle for describing their conditions. I can give multiple examples of our forgoing this reality in responsible positions. However, the word is straightforward. The responsible person always transcends the description to the commands of action. We ...
Read moreA Door for Work
They were companions of the same age, gathered in the Church hall. They were all around ten years old. I approached them, greeted them and asked them: “what do you want to do when you grow up?”. They gave me various answers. One of them confidently said: "I want to become a writer"! Her answer ...
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