Hassan, Hassan, Majed, Jihad, Elham, Jihad… are some of the forty classmates with whom I was brought together by the school benches. Most of them were displaced from southern Lebanon to a suburb that slept on the shores of Beirut, which was unlike any suburb, perhaps in the world, in its diversity and ability to ...
Read moreThe Paupers of Joy
This morning, I went out of my house begging for a word. I left no one on the road without examining them carefully. Apart from the few hasty greetings, I can say that those I saw were mostly inclined to silence. I am not saying that we have become strangers in our country, but rather ...
Read moreThe Harp of Victory
A friend of mine who visited me during the summer singled me out with a long evening in which he told me about the days of his emigration that he had decided after the explosion of Beirut on August 4, 2020. He told me, among other things, that emigration is “a journey into an unknown ...
Read moreThe Service of Reform
The service of reform in this world is not really realistic, if those who receive the service do not discover that God loves them in the people who are serving them. Love is the reform of the world.
Read moreTo a Responsible Brother
Life is a constant struggle. Every human being is responsible for himself and for people, old and young. How does he who works in the light fall? I am not asking about the scandal of vices that unfold in the course of commitment, but rather about the secret of obedience. What is the secret of ...
Read moreThe Lord Is At Hand
Clinging to the elder brethren in the Church does not always indicate following them in love! There are people, who have accompanied elders, bishops, priests, and others, who followed them in worship meetings, and upon whom fell pearls from their words and deeds, and nevertheless, they remained alien to their secret, strangers to the awareness ...
Read moreThe Concern of Believers
When the Apostle Paul concluded an opinion that he gave in an urgent Church matter by saying: “and I think I also have the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 7:40), he ruled that there is no freedom of opinion without openness to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This is the concern of the believers ...
Read moreSilence in Politics!
I now have a political solution to the political programs! I am speaking seriously. You must be watching our local channels! The news of our country is drawn from here first. I am just like you. I will tell you. A few days ago, my son, who has concluded his visit to us yesterday, went ...
Read moreThe Ink of Renewal
Committed writing always requires some of the serenity of hermitages. I dare say that it is some kind of asceticism! We can scent its perfume in the words of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (+1935): “I have no ambitions nor desires. To be a poet is not my ambition, it is simply my way of ...
Read moreIs There A Christian Fanaticism?
In more than one place, there are people who are eaten up with a sick fanaticism. In an expanse in which the sectarians’ rule is growing, they do not speak only of the rights of the denomination, their own denomination exclusively, but rather of their divine right to label others as well; they speak for ...
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