On the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, after the Divine Liturgy, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement, in Hazmieh, organize every year a general meeting in a mountainous area, in which they enjoy nature together, and share the Word, bread and salt. This year, I did not participate with them in their ...
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Eternity Before Eternity
The Apostle Paul’s word: “that I may know Him…” (Philippians 3:10), the way it seems to its reader, refuses to consider knowledge, that is, our knowledge of Christ, an event that happened to us at a certain time, in a distant or a recent past, and then has become part of a history to which ...
Read moreMeaning of the Places
Brother Elias Haber, the new person in charge of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) branch in Hazmieh, conveyed to me the desire of the brethren in the Mount Lebanon Chapter to use the our Church hall on a date he mentioned to me. He did not wait for me to ask him about the occasion, ...
Read moreClinging to the Brethren
To be brought up in the Truth is to cling to those whom we see as a light in the community. You do know. You can bear witness to those you see shining in your quest for the esteemed life. I do not think that life remains the same if we move away from them. ...
Read moreThe Communion of Prayer
We can ask others to do many things on our behalf, except for prayer. The word, which we say to one another: “Pray for me,” is not a delegation or a procuration, but a declaration of communion. There is nothing, like each one of us praying personally, that can drive from us the illusion that ...
Read moreThe Scope of the Saints
“Apply your heart to my knowledge”. With these words, in which the writer of the Book of Proverbs urged his readers to accept the words of the wise (22:17), the Church prompts us one by one to a conscious adherence to the experience of the brethren whom the Spirit of God had raised for Himself, ...
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