Those who came from the womb of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) do not lack the knowledge that the Church is the life of obedience to God. You remember that Metropolitan George Khodr, who saw in you what convinced him that you were born to serve God and His people, used to repeat to us ...
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The Better Lebanon
There is no country like Lebanon that teaches you to “fend for yourself”: in your health safety; in your children’s education; in water and electricity, and in your commute… Do not expect from the country, that is, those who are supposed to rule it, to help you in anything. It is preoccupied with many things, ...
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My friend Riad Mofarrij once told me, in a meeting that brought us together, that he hardly ever hears from Church pulpits, priests uttering the name of Jesus in their homilies. This is a piece of news open for public scrutiny. He did not literally say that the mention of Jesus indicates that the pulpit ...
Read moreTo Father Fadi Wakim
That the Angel of Tripoli and Al-Koura makes you a priest of God on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman is an eloquent decision. In this Paschal period, we are in front of icons that were planted before us for our salvation. All the faces came out of nothing into being. From Thomas, who doubted ...
Read moreCommemoration of the Two Bishops
On the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping of the two Bishops, Boulos Yazigi and Youhanna Ibrahim, speaking about their fate and the fate of those who are kidnapped in the land, is pressing. The crime that is denounced by far and near as being horrible, is still bleeding. In one of the articles I have ...
Read moreChrist is Risen!
A few decades ago, were you to address one of the faithful with the Paschal greeting (Christ is risen!) after the apodosis of the feast, during the condolences for a brother’s death, for example, a startled look on his face would betray his bewilderment! Nowadays, many people started racing to throw off the greeting at ...
Read moreA Man of Obedience
Today, Metropolitan Saba Esper took off for America. He carried with him our love and prayers, and followed the decision of the Antiochian Synod to serve his new Archdiocese. His departure from us is anguish that can only be healed by our knowledge that all the faithful in the expanse of his new ministry, old ...
Read moreFools for Christ’s Sake
During Lent, we hold, on Wednesday evening and Friday morning, a communion service that we call the Presanctified Liturgy. Like every communal service, this cannot be carried out by the priest alone. He needs brethren to participate in carrying it out, among them at least, a chanter, a reader, and an altar servant. I know ...
Read moreMy Mother Said
My mother came to the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) because of what she was seeing with her early-ailing eyes. Without entering any one of its halls, she joined it with love, which is stronger than every illness. This was before we joined the ranks of the Movement, that is, before my sister grew up in ...
Read moreThe Regeneration Secret
Today, in our difficult time on more than one level, I would like to pay tribute to the young brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) who are striving to serve the regeneration of their Church in this Antiochian expanse, in word and deed. I do not mean only the revered brethren who are watching ...
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