When we read, we must bend down a little, to pick up the words, or the words pick us up. Notice! When we hold a book or a newspaper..., the words are generally a little downward, and our faces are directed towards them. This does not mean that words are inferior to us, but rather ...
Read moreGod’s Will
For those who seek God's will, God's will is explicit. God wants to take us in His arms, and seal two kisses of fire on our cheeks that will burn every rebellion and every folly in us. When will the prodigal son in us awaken to God's will?
Read moreA Debt to Beirut
Days ago, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Beirut elected the beloved brother Rami Hosni as president of their chapter. Beirut is the place of my birth, physically as well as into the Movement, before the branches of the Movement in Mount Lebanon got together to form a new chapter. I will ...
Read moreA Word to a Visiting Emigrant
One does not welcome the household people in their own house. I do not know how many years it has been since you left Lebanon. However, I am sure that you know that it is as you had left it, rather, if we mention our economic collapse, the epidemic, and the explosion of Beirut in ...
Read moreConcern For People
During the past two weeks, I underwent three diagnostic tests for COVID-19. My daughter insisted that I find out if my contacts with infected people had passed by safely. My tests came back negative; may God protect you! You know. We have no indication that the epidemic has become a thing of the past. I ...
Read moreGeorge Khodr’s Secret
This is an incident that I like to repeat. I visited Metropolitan George Khodr once. He was sitting at the kitchen table in his house eating breakfast. After greeting and chatting with him, one of the brethren of his assistants pointed out to us that the birthday of one of his close acquaintances falls on ...
Read moreOf the Household
This morning, I woke up early to a question from a friend. He said to me: “why do you not dare to criticize the Synodists…?” (I think he meant the members of the Synod in the Church of Antioch). He chose to place his question, in a text I had posted a few days ago, ...
Read moreThe Maker Church
It is not the people who make the Church. It is she who makes them, if they adhere to her Truth. What do you do with those who ram their vices in her? It is not you who do. There is a great Lord of whom His Gospel says that He is at hand (Philippians ...
Read moreFaith Leadership
If faith in God does not lead me to fructify my faith through the love of all others, without distinguishing between face and face, near or far..., I publicly declare that I am one of the leaders of the contemporary Pharisees.
Read moreA Grateful Greeting!
I have a friend who had emigrated about a month ago. He went in search of bread in a country that does not hide bread from its people. Yesterday, he called me. He told me that a mutual friend took him on Sunday to one of our churches in his new country. After the Liturgy ...
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