A few days ago, Brother Majed Azar organized for us a lunch in his beautiful village, Bchamoun, bringing together several brethren from the Orthodox Youth Movement in our parish. Any form of gathering with the brethren from the Movement is a fortune. At the end of the gathering, I had the opportunity to speak with ...
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Serving Beauty
Joe Kareh, the beloved journalist, in footage he published about one of the snowy landscapes in the mountains of Lebanon, led the camera accompanying him so that we can join him in seeing the massacre of rubbish left behind by people who had visited the place over the weekend. He said firmly: "Honestly, with people ...
Read moreA Reconciliation Duty
If we really think that ignorance is a flaw, we all have to reconcile that everything that brings this world forward concerns us, one by one. Nothing can be reformed without this reconciliation.
Read moreA New Blessing
How long will the churches continue to stand alone in facing what is happening in the world? I am not underestimating the ability of any church to be faithful and wise. What I mean is that there are some matters deserving that we set aside the borders between us, East and West, in order to ...
Read moreBearing Witness to the Truth
A friend of mine, who is majoring in political science at the university, asked me to suggest a title for a paper required of him at his university. I did not provide an answer. I prompted him to write about the neutrality of our peoples in most crucial matters on which we are expected to ...
Read moreThe One Commitment
When the Saints talk about two dimensions of commitment, theological and moral, what they mean is only one dimension. There is no sound life that is not established on the knowledge of God. There is no true knowledge of God that is not translated into our lives on earth. Ethics is an explicit aspect of ...
Read moreEnough!
Most of those who deal with public affairs in our country today excel at one thing, namely, at offering you more and more poison every day. Every responsible person, having an iota of wisdom, if he thinks of developing himself in what he is doing, he will subject himself to criticism and evaluation. I do ...
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If you equivocate in presenting the Truth for any reason that contradicts the Truth, rest assured that whatever else you say to people instead, will benefit them in nothing at all. Be truthful in presenting the Truth!
Read moreFreedom
In the nineteenth century, the disease of “the system of slavery” had spread in the United States of America. Once, the attorney Abraham Lincoln (who became the sixteenth president of his country) saw, in one of the states, black men and women tied up like cattle, and offered for sale at auction! A woman was ...
Read moreConstructive Work
On a general app, various news about well-known people in Lebanon and the world, politicians and artists, reach our phones… The headlines of these news articles are placed by their writers in a style that is intended to motivate people to read them. I cannot be certain that everything that is written is always accurate. ...
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