O Jesus, a world that looks at things from below, whose eyes are estranged from the transcendence of Your gifts, is unable to look upward. On the day they crucified You, they told You to come down from the Cross. They stipulated that Your descent be a sign of Your glory. Literally, they said: "If ...
Read moreGreat Thursday
Oh Jesus, I have read about the events of this great day in Your great Gospel. You were aware of everything that would happen to You; indeed in both Your silence and Your words, You were saying that You only "came for this hour". You ordered the preparation of the Last Supper. You rejected Judas' ...
Read moreGreat Wednesday
Oh Jesus, O God Who holds the end in His hand. Today, we have concluded the first three days of the Great Week. Each day has brought us benefits based on action and its opposite. On Monday, we stood before the fruitful Joseph and the barren fig tree. On Tuesday, we faced the five wise ...
Read moreGreat Tuesday
Oh Jesus, no parable You have narrated for our good and our reform frightens me as much as the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13). I am talking openly to You about what You know of me, with and without words. Tell me: how do You expel from the wedding five out of ten ...
Read moreGreat Monday
O Jesus, ever since Your face shone to me on the faces of brethren who wished me to be with them in Your Church, I have been struck by holiness. I am here on the road leading to your Pascha. The feast is near yet distant! The days are passing by. But my shocks are ...
Read morePalm Sunday
This is a day for all of us, young and old, to declare that we are with Christ, hoping to be accepted as members in His eternal kingdom. Our children with us are our expression that this is our upbringing and our legacy. Everything we carry with us, ourselves and our children, palm fronds and ...
Read moreThe Proclamation of Pascha
The forty-day fast practically ends on this day. Tomorrow, after we follow Jesus in His entry into Jerusalem, the Church will call us to join another fast, the "Great Week Fast", which used to be, in ancient times, the preparatory fast for Pascha. The convergence of the two fasts, the forty-day fast and the Great ...
Read moreNadia Nasrallah
Nadia Nasrallah thrives on the love of the Word. You see her, in all her appearances, extending kind words here, and expressing admiration there with flowers that seem as if she plucked them from the courtyard of her fraternal home in the Keserwan district (Mount Lebanon), or prayers she brought from her Church as tokens ...
Read moreThe Mind of the Orthodox Church
The Great Lent is also a time for reading, a journey towards greater understanding of the word and its meanings. You know that there are books provided by the Church that offer us eternal nourishment during Lent (the New Testament, The Ladder of Divine Ascent...). This encourages us to establish a special tradition of reading, ...
Read moreThe Poor in the Church
Some exegetes suggest that when Jesus said, "You have the poor with you always" (Matthew 26:11), He meant that the wealthy of the world would never have any desire to change the social and economic structures on earth. Pay no attention to the fact that they came up with this interpretation based on the reality ...
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