I have never known a time like our current era, in which some of us boastfully proclaim themselves as superior teachers over others in the Antiochian Church. Where are they from? All you know about them is that they appear on social media, hurling insults at you or others for any deviation from what they ...
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Journeying in the Word
Today, I am returning to Antioch and the wounds and joys of her people, to my people whom I have never left, and who have opened my eyes to the fact that God, in love, is greater than my own eyes. I am returning to those whom I love, and to those of them who ...
Read moreChristian Zionism
A few days ago, I went to my library. I wanted a book, the reading of which would keep me in Gaza! First, I looked for Metropolitan George Khodr’s book “Al-Quds”, the introduction of which was written by the poet Mahmoud Darwish. I did not find it. I looked for another book, about “Prophecy and ...
Read morePartnership of the Great People
A friend of mine, who lives abroad, called me and talked to me about a job that had been offered to him in an institution owned by a Jewish family. I encouraged him to decline the offer. The meaning of what I told him was that we cannot contribute to the wealth of people who, ...
Read moreThe Priest of crises!
When crises become severe, I do not think that there is a priest in our time who is remembered by people, like Father George Massouh. George left us after having left, in many of his acquaintances, (the impression) that he had taken with him the whip with which he used to lash the dove sellers, ...
Read moreLaunch Out into the Deep
Yesterday, and the day before, I had the opportunity to participate in a part of an internal conference held by the Mount Lebanon chapter of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). Palestine was present, with its wounds and our hopes for it, first in the homily given by Metropolitan Silouan Moussi, during the Vespers prayer that ...
Read morePeace be upon Palestine
Yesterday, a friend of mine, of Palestinian descent, who lives in Mount Lebanon, called me and started telling me what she has learned from her communication with her family and relatives, in Palestine, in the last two days. She said: “The Israelis have unleashed their insane hatred on the people in our country”. She did ...
Read moreFaces of Light
When I set out to write the book “Faces of Light”, in which I narrated testimonies about great brethren living in our midst (published by An-Nour Orthodox Coop, in 2005), I first related the draft of its first pages to Metropolitan George Khodr who dwells in a house that is invaded by light both inside ...
Read moreTo Metropolitan Saba Esper
It is a word of thanks that I send to you first, to Sayyedna Alexander, and to the brethren priests for accepting me among you as one of you in your beautiful Church. I have spent fifty days there, during which I felt at home, as you had told me in your familiar voice. I ...
Read moreOther Visions
On my “way” to Lebanon, I expected myself to still be inclined to observing, observing people and things. This did not happen. At Montreal airport, from which I will travel to Frankfurt and then to Beirut, my eyes seemed as if they had arrived to my city before me. My eyes are not made of ...
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