A Debt to Beirut

Days ago, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Beirut elected the beloved brother Rami Hosni as president of their chapter. Beirut is the place of my birth, physically as well as into the Movement, before the branches of the Movement in Mount Lebanon got together to form a new chapter. I will not go now into the details of what happened more than three decades ago. The regeneration is a perpetual workshop for reflection and renewal. What can we, in Beirut and the Mount, do together, in order to foster our testimony to God and our expansion to where the ministry of the Word calls us? This is what should always concern us. I mention the explosion of August 4, not to open old wounds, but rather to notice the overlap between the land of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, especially in the areas near the port. It was a great testimony that our people in the Mount considered, after the criminal explosion, that Beirut mattered to them as a capital, but also as a mother who gave birth to them. Indeed, as per the Movement, we are indebted to Beirut.