This morning, I overheard a young man’s voice telling his father: “bless me, dad”. I am well acquainted with the word. This is the word of my friend Pierre, whom I grew up together with in the same neighborhood. Have I mentioned the word to you before? How can a word conjure up faces that ...

I was walking on the road, searching for something to write to you. The blind and the poor have faith that God is present in what they are asking for. I spared no one passing before me from fully examining him from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. I did ...

Before the feast, I called a brother physician, working abroad, who was, in the eighties of the last century, the leader of “a group in the Movement” in which I used to meet in one of the branches of Mount Lebanon Chapter. I asked him for a favor which one of our young men had ...

People have their differences. In our Church, we say that, if we keep the orthodox dogma, we can differ in any other thing. Is the fire, said to come out of Jesus’ grave on Great and Holy Saturday, really holy? This is a question raised by brethren among us. Is it a sin to raise ...

When Paul said: “be free from anxieties” (1 Corinthians 7:32), he wanted us to see that God is with us in all circumstances: in our sorrow and our joy, in our contentedness and our anger, in our pain and our health, in our peace and our anxiety… this is the experience of Pascha to those ...

In our Tradition, we celebrate the feast of the saint on the day of his repose or martyrdom. This is his day of birth in the Kingdom of God. We celebrate the feast of Saint George on his day (April 23rd) if we had already celebrated Pascha, and we move it till after that, if ...

He asked for an advice saying: I was accepted by an institution for a job I had chosen by aspiration, then by knowledge. However, its administration asks us, sometimes, to do what is against my conviction. What do you think?”. I told him: “do nothing other than what is acceptable to you”. A week later, ...

This is the Paschal greeting to you and to all those who, in these bitter days, have been broken by grief over a death or an illness or an abandonment or an unemployment or have been shaken by a trauma… Christ is risen, He is risen in all of you. Today, I wanted to call ...

Pick yourself a room for silence. Find it, for your own relief, so that you can take refuge in it whenever you want; in times of triviality as well as in times of bedazzlement; whether you were sad or joyful; in the time of peace as well as in the time of wrath; in comfort ...