In my son’s house, an icon of Jesus is placed above the entrance door. My son knows that it is not part of our heritage to put the icon in our homes, in other than an inner room, in the place of prayer, on the eastern wall. The icon is not for public display, but ...
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Antiochian Heritage
The Lebanese
I will choose ten characteristics of the Lebanese, which I do not claim to always apply to him or to be restricted to him among the peoples of the earth. 1- If you visit the Lebanese, he feels offended when you decline his hospitality. 2- After God, his dignity counts first. 3- With regard to ...
Read moreThe Social Solicitude
I was struck by brother Rami Hosni’s article: “The Movement and the Social Solicitude” with which “An-Nour Magazine” opened its last issue. The basis of the article is that its writer saw, in the effort of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in social service, a faithfulness to the legacy of the great Fathers, and he ...
Read moreA Word to a Visiting Emigrant
One does not welcome the household people in their own house. I do not know how many years it has been since you left Lebanon. However, I am sure that you know that it is as you had left it, rather, if we mention our economic collapse, the epidemic, and the explosion of Beirut in ...
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