I do not feel at ease to announce, from the pulpit of the Church, any activity other than that which aims to serve the Word and the poor. Once, the brethren asked me to announce an activity, the proceeds of which go to help children complete their education. I said to myself: "dedicate your homily ...
Read moreAll-Saints Sunday
It is well known that our Church, whose liturgical year begins on September 1, is dominated by Pentecost (the Church labels most of its Sundays and weeks that they fall after Pentecost). This, in and of itself, reveals that, without the Spirit of God, we cannot walk ecclesiastically in the space of worship even one ...
Read moreThe Working Spirit
There is no boring and exhausting work equivalent to the ecclesial work in which we rely exclusively on our own ability. Everything differs with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit, if we surrender to Him, gives forth in us the good deeds that please Him, revive us and please Him, please and glorify Him.
Read moreThe Scope of the Saints
“Apply your heart to my knowledge”. With these words, in which the writer of the Book of Proverbs urged his readers to accept the words of the wise (22:17), the Church prompts us one by one to a conscious adherence to the experience of the brethren whom the Spirit of God had raised for Himself, ...
Read moreThe Church
The most beautiful texts that I conveyed to you over these years are the ones that I have read with you. I conveyed to you, many times, words uttered by other people, saints, priests, theologians, thinkers, writers and poets… Today, from the quiver of Saint John Chrysostom, I will pass on to you these words ...
Read moreUnconditional Love
Last night, a TV reportage reminded me of the "International Blood Donor Day". For healthy adults (between 18 and 65 years old) this is an exhortation to be vigilant that we are all responsible for serving life on earth. The reportage told that male donors could, if they wished, repeat this donation every two months, ...
Read moreHalf of the Medicine
I have a doctor friend who lives abroad. On one of his visits to Lebanon, I consulted him about a mutual friend of ours. He gave me the name of a doctor who works here in one of the hospitals in Lebanon. My friend went to him. He prescribed for him a treatment that he ...
Read moreFreedom
In the nineteenth century, the disease of “the system of slavery” had spread in the United States of America. Once, the attorney Abraham Lincoln (who became the sixteenth president of his country) saw, in one of the states, black men and women tied up like cattle, and offered for sale at auction! A woman was ...
Read moreThe Giving Spirit
What will we ask the Spirit to give us today? If I may suggest an answer, we have today an urgent need for three gifts. The first is to see God. The world today lives in alienation from seeing God. God is here. “Sir, we wish to see …”. The second gift is to know ...
Read moreThe Meaning of Man
Any meaning given to honor Man remains scanty vis-à-vis the belief that God has chosen us as a temple for Himself, a dwelling place for His Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16).
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