I will confess something to you. I am one of those who do not give up the things that remind them of something. There are people who were once, close friends of mine. Even those whose relationship with me had changed, if they had left something which has significance to me, I do not give ...

Saint Seraphim of Sarov (+1833) was asked: “why do we no longer see nowadays the wonders of Grace which used to take place a lot in the past?”. He answered: “There is only one thing lacking today: a serious commitment (literally: a firm resolve)”. Did Saint Seraphim mean that, if we keep the requirements of ...

I was walking. You may have noticed. Since the pandemic has tightened its besiegement on us, I started favoring the inner roads in our area, for my walking. Seeing people, (exchanging) a word or two, a greeting from afar, break for me some of this suffocating siege. I saw it. It was lying there on ...

I grew up in a district where everything was permitted. Sins, before they are acts, are companionship! When the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) invited me to their meetings, some of them knew me. They all shared their apprehension of me! Then they found out that I was, for them, a treasure for ...

I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here ...

I am laying aside the pandemic, and tracking the diseases it is leaving behind in our homes. For over a year, people have been living in a closed world. Early in the lockdown in Lebanon, I had called you as well as myself, in hasty lines, to benefit from our staying together in our homes. ...

Do not accept a matter that will drown you in a sea of worry. Always remind yourself that what worries us today, God had already helped us to get out of a similar matter, the day before. Nothing strengthens our souls against difficulties that face us, like remembering that we hold an experience of victory. ...

Salwa Hanna has summed up all the love in her comment on lines that were written in tribute to His Holiness Pope Francis who has bid farewell to Iraq today. She said: “I miss Baghdad. I wish the Pope would take me with him”. The yearning of the child in us never slumbers. Lebanon’s media ...