I went up to the roof of the building I live in. The day was almost far spent. My intention was not to watch the setting sun, which I love, in its rising and its setting, but rather to check the water in our tank. This is our state in the land of water; we ...
Read moreA Surprise Visit!
On Saturday, following the lapse of one year, eight months, and twenty-eight days since he traveled, my son surprised me by visiting us. He had planned the visit in detail with other people, with his mother, his sister and some of his friends, without my knowledge and the knowledge of his brother and some of ...
Read moreMonday Morning
Every Monday at about nine in the morning, brother Tony Khoury calls on my home landline. This is a tradition that we have adopted since he was overtaken, during the Covid-19 period, by a health condition most traces of which have vanished, thank God. Brother Tony was a Secretary General to the Orthodox Youth Movement ...
Read moreThe Christian
Is the value of the lively words diminished by our ignorance of their source? Who said: “meeting a Christian human being is an unparalleled vision”? I tried to find out. I did not succeed. People are their own words. Are these words testimony or encouragement? I think they are both testimony and encouragement. Encouraging awareness ...
Read moreGifts of the Spirit
He who seeks the gifts of the Holy Spirit for himself as well as for all people with one passion and one determination, is he who truly knows that the Spirit is the Giver. This does not only have to do with the awareness that the One Spirit cannot be monopolized up, but also that ...
Read moreA Sign For Good
When Metropolitan Silouan Moussi entered the Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon, succeeding Metropolitan George Khodr, I told him: "you, Master, have come to a Church who loves her bishop". My intent was obvious. Her bishop, that is, any bishop who will take over the ministry after Metropolitan George. Metropolitan Silouan came to succeed a bishop who ...
Read moreTo Be Fair!
Forty-five years ago, a European university accepted a friend of mine as a student. Weeks after he had traveled, he sent me a letter in which he told me that, upon his arrival, he went to visit a relative of his in a nearby area. They stayed up till dawn. Then he returned home, the ...
Read moreFather Ghassan's Miniatures
Day after day, one of the brethren sends me what Father Ghassan Salloum posts on his Facebook account. Those who follow him know that what he posts are but miniatures that he draws from the pages of other writers, both local and international, the spreading of which he deems beneficial, as I do too. This, ...
Read moreUphold Your Priests
A while ago, I was offering condolences to a friend in the hall of a sister Church. I overheard two priests, the age of my two sons, talking about the growing neediness in our country. It shocked me that both of them shifted from talking about people’s neediness to their own! The two priests are ...
Read moreSelected Scenes
Yesterday, I spent an hour on a public road. In their cars, people are stories (to be told). I have chosen for you these three scenes: 1- A man in his car, his wife sitting next to him, carrying a child, was smoking a cigarette with the contemplation of a journalist writing an article! 2- ...
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