We spend our life not looking at our actual sins. I will tell you this story: a good girl joined a convent. The nuns liked her, and their Mother Superior was a second mother to her. Everything was indicating that she had entered to the convent, to stay. On a good evening, the Mother Superior ...

In laying out the difference between fear and dread, the Arabs are quoted to have said: “dread is the long-term and ongoing fear. Then the monk (literally: Raheb, that is, him who dreads) is called thus because he causes fear to remain perpetual”. It befits us to see that this well-known definition of the monk ...

I cherish Razane, my friend, for many reasons. Today, I will mention to you one of them, a bit of her precious fragrance. Any discussion she engages in, whatever her position was in it, be it with you or against you, she leaves nothing behind her other than her friendliness. Kindness rules. Compared to what ...

Do not mock the weakness of a human being. Think about your own weaknesses; these are well known to you. Any weakness in any other human being, you may judge it rightly, and you may misjudge it. Always remind yourself that no one knows the weaknesses of others before the intervention of the Grace. This ...

Palm Sunday belongs to us all, old and young. This is a day in which we walk with Jesus to His Passion and His Resurrection. The joy, our joy in accompanying Him on a tour in which we all resemble children who bequeathed to us that we bless: “He Who comes in the Name of ...

Does a preacher, from the pulpit of a church, have the right to utter words borrowed from the literary world? I was reminded of this question by a priest, who lives in the West, and who, in a sermon he had delivered on one of the Sundays of preparation for the Great Lent, had quoted ...

What is the secret of these two parables, the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18: 10-14), and the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32), which dominate the prayers of the Great & Holy Lent? This is a question that keeps coming to me on every Great Lent. I am not ...

When the great words reach us, they rest in us the way a Man rests in his house, and they emerge when they see that there is a good deed waiting for them! Today, I will leave you one of these words. Some forty years ago, I heard, along with some of our friends in ...