How do we help one another be better? The question reveals that the better is possible in the communal life, in the sense that the one who takes care of the brethren out of conviction, is always before the “good Word of God,” or that is what should be. This does not only mean that ...
Read moreThe Peephole
Last night, I took the advice of one of my friends to watch an old movie that he told me about. In one scene, there was knocking on the door of a married couple who were engrossed in a private conversation. The husband got up, and opened the door. He never looked through the peephole ...
Read moreGod’s Transfiguration
When I write about a sight that struck me, I confess publicly that God reveals to us of His goodness what He reveals, and conceals what He conceals. The eyes are stormed and they are ever curtailed. God is manifested in the narration as well as in the silence, in the faces with resounding expressions, ...
Read moreThe Communion of Prayer
We can ask others to do many things on our behalf, except for prayer. The word, which we say to one another: “Pray for me,” is not a delegation or a procuration, but a declaration of communion. There is nothing, like each one of us praying personally, that can drive from us the illusion that ...
Read moreOn the Road
I was walking in a neighboring area. I saw two women on the road, each carrying a child who seemed to me to be her grandchild. The grandmother is an icon of sacrificial love. I passed by a little. The voice of a man entering a store reached me. Addressing the shop owner the way ...
Read moreLife As a Choice
When I read that “the terminally ill” is he who is medically expected to live up to six months, I recalled my father-in-law. He had fallen ill. I had a friend who is a doctor, living abroad, he singles me out with a visit every time he comes to Lebanon. I consulted him about my ...
Read moreThe Truth of Heaven
Was the explosion of August 2020 a crime of negligence or intent? For two years, this has been Lebanon’s question! We got accustomed to the fact that crimes in our country become events of deploration, condemnation and remembrance. What is heart-breaking in the country is that, if we concur on the bitterness of defeat, you ...
Read moreTo a Visiting Emigrant
In Lebanon, we have many issues that might drive you to complaining and to anger, and other things to joy. My advice to you: do not stay in your country as though you are a stranger. No matter how many years you've been abroad, you do know your country. You do know what is existent ...
Read moreSecularism
To show, intentionally or unknowingly, that the Church resembles the world in its standards and ideas, this is an outright victory for secularism. The Church in the world resembles nothing but herself. She is an eternal call to Man to realize the image in which God has created him, that is, it is a call ...
Read moreThe Exiled Christ
I was thinking of the deserted endowments of the Christians; contemplating the exiled Christ! Here, near me, there is an endowment to a monastery where the priest who maintained it, loved the poor. Monks obey! He was removed from his position in the hope that the property of the monastery will be invested for the ...
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