I am singling you out with these quick lines. It is not my concern to set you apart from our other peers whom I love as much as I love you, but rather to remind you of your heritage without which we have no salvation. I do not think there is a heritage in the ...
Read moreThe Social Solicitude
I was struck by brother Rami Hosni’s article: “The Movement and the Social Solicitude” with which “An-Nour Magazine” opened its last issue. The basis of the article is that its writer saw, in the effort of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in social service, a faithfulness to the legacy of the great Fathers, and he ...
Read moreThe Meaning of Joy
Nothing indicates that we really know the meaning of joy, and that we even deserve joy, if we do not live in unity with the others in all circumstances, in sadness as well as in joy.
Read moreTo Be Fertile
When a tiring virus whips away your voice, you find yourself in solitude. You do not believe that you are a world for yourself. Your belief is that, from the beginning, Man is extended towards God and people. Does the transient silence, upon which we have not decided, carry a call for us to decide ...
Read moreMaggy Mahmoud
Yesterday, Maggy Mahmoud rushed to leave her public school in Tripoli. She did not leave it, as usual, to her parents’ home, rather, she was betrayed by the neglect of a country that grew old before maturing! Neglect has snatched a sixteen-year-old girl from the bosom of youth and from the eyes of her parents ...
Read moreOn Dialogue
In order to fulfill its purpose, dialogue, in whatever matter, requires us to have several attributes. For instance, it requires us to be: “1- free people within whom the interests of the world do not resonate; 2- people for all; 3- people who give precedence to the common good above everything that we think is ...
Read moreLoving Reform
My father hated lying the same way he hated blindness. Have I told you this before? He used to regard it as cowardice or as a rejection of reform. I bring back memories of my father from a distant past. I make him seem as if he is attached to God and His mind. Were ...
Read moreA Solution in Our Hands!
When I write about Lebanon, I have come to expect you to turn a blind eye to my lines. For Lebanon to become a true homeland for us, this, for most of us, is a dream preserved for a tomorrow to come. I have not given up on my optimism. In spite of my admitting ...
Read moreTo the Leaders of the "Christian Parties
The Church is a fraternal society in which we are all one. There are dilemmas that contradict this unity in Lebanon, of which I will mention two. The first relates to the request that you be mentioned publicly, in some Church services, whether you attend or send a representative on your behalf. The fault in ...
Read moreGood People
Those we see, every day, on the roads of this life, are those whom God has sent to us in order to serve them. Without this conviction, doing good becomes, for many people, an indefinitely well-kept dream. Good people, who do not fit in the world, are living right here, right now.
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