Whenever I write about Lebanon, I perceive annoyed voices coming out from your end! Today, I also beg your pardon. I can understand the interests of the professional politicians, if they approach our situations in Lebanon with indignant or indifferent pessimism! However, I cannot understand that we hasten to repeat what they say, we, whose ...

I have always considered Jesus' word: "ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find" (Matthew 7:7) a prompting to the cohesion of the awareness that the generosity of God is greater than everything we ask of Him. Days ago, I found myself captivated by a new exegete who has taught ...

What do people base themselves on when they say about someone that he has "sportsmanship"? Is it that sports is a world to be morally emulated, in sacrifice, peace, cooperation and friendliness...? Let me confess to you. I have never used this expression before, in whatever context. I do not dislike sports, quite the contrary, ...

What lines do the years write on your face? They write: "Elder"! That is if you are my age, walk like me, dressed up in sports clothes, at a time I consider to be lost time, that is, at noontime. You do not always see yourself as an elder. Some of the young passers-by who ...

The joys of the ecclesial life are stronger than its sorrows. Examples for this are numerous. I will give you as an example Paul's speech in farewell to the elders of the Church in Ephesus: "also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves" (Acts 20:30). ...

Do you like traveling from one country to another? Travel, then. Travel, if you are able in these difficult days or in others. Do not leave a country you like to visit without your flying to it. However, you should bear in mind that there is a single trip, without which all your trips would ...

When I hear his voice on my phone, I stand ready like a soldier awaiting the order of the day. Those who love the Church of Jesus always talk to you, as commissioned from above. He started telling me about the faithful who got dispersed by the pandemic. Life is tough. Death is scary. He ...

You need not tire yourself in preparing any program for you to spend a pleasurable time, but rather leap to your little child, your son or your grandson, who has started wandering around the house; mumbling a few words; laughing; he knows where his toys are kept; he is engrossed in playing with them... So, ...

The ecclesial feasts have their reflection on the faithful. On this great day, we celebrate Jesus' ascension to heaven, but, also our own ascension in Him at the same time. If you want it said more accurately, the one to understand this feast is he who understands that on earth, we are on a journey ...

The apodosis of Pascha is the leavetaking of the feast of Pascha, that is, it is the day on which we conclude the forty-day period mentioned by the writer of the Book of Acts at the beginning of his book (1:2,3). Liturgically, we take leave from the feast by (celebrating) the service of the feast. ...