Of the ecclesiastical feasts which we wrong ourselves by neglecting, as they had been neglected by those who participated in organizing holidays in our country, is the feast of the Lord's Ascension into Heaven. The thing, which many Christians miss, is that this feast, the feast of the Divine Ascension, is another aspect of Pascha. ...
Read moreThe Social Service Committee, in a friendly parish, took a decision to abstain from helping anyone who says that he is in need, if it knows that he is addicted to smoking cigarettes. It assumed, in this rampant price hike in Lebanon, that if the needy smokers stop smoking, they can help themselves. This decision ...
Read moreO God, O our God Who is All-knowing, be gracious unto us with Your mercy and Your strength. Does the Lord stipulate anything from His servants? Do not expect anything good from us. You be our good. You hearken unto us both when we speak and when we are silent. We are people who know ...
Read moreIn the past, I used to be saddened by those who push the others to speak of them in an odious way. The sins of the world still make me sad. However, my friends have taught me to grieve, primarily, for the speakers themselves. One of them told me, once: “no one is worthy of ...
Read moreOn a general app, various news about well-known people in Lebanon and the world, politicians and artists, reach our phones… The headlines of these news articles are placed by their writers in a style that is intended to motivate people to read them. I cannot be certain that everything that is written is always accurate. ...
Read moreEvery time it is proven to me that someone is boasting about something he finds beautiful in himself, I say that: “this one is in need of someone to love him or (in need of) understanding that love is always free”. Nothing restores our senses like our belief that “love does not seek its own” ...
Read moreI have a friend who works in the administration of a school in Lebanon. He told me, “our students, in their last year of high school, used to set up activities that would generate money for them to spend on their graduation party”. This year they broke their habit. They did carry out activities; however, ...
Read moreI briefly return to the outbreak of the epidemic. It was hard, on more than one level. We did not know what the world knows about it today. If God grants us to live, it is our duty to review what we have done in the light of the Truth. For example, were we hasty ...
Read moreThis morning, we woke to the news of the departure of two angels from among us to heaven, Nabil Al-Dibs from Mina Tripoli, and Rony Saad from Qannabet Brummana. Both men were two of our brethren who were well-pleasing in love and service, loving the Word and serving its people. Rony was a beacon in ...
Read moreFollowing Pascha, we have five Sundays: Thomas’ Sunday, the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing women, the Sunday of the Paralytic, the Sunday of the Samaritan woman, and the Sunday of the Blind man. The main objective of these Sundays is for the Church to confirm in us that we are witnesses to the living Christ. After ...
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