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I would have liked to title these lines: “no brain”. Indeed, there is no sense in a savage entity that believes that no one else is entitled to life. Am I looking at the Palestine war with a single eye? It is not for me to compare the monster to the victim. I am talking ...
Read moreA 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 moreYesterday, 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 moreI used to believe that there is no one in the world who, like your father and mother, would want you to live. Jesus’ word “I have come that they may have life…” (John 10:10), was one of my proofs to myself of His fatherhood to all creation. However, this summer, I made a new ...
Read moreOnly he who learns that life is a school that never shuts its doors, and out of which the outstanding students do not graduate before they depart from, is able to overcome the shocks of life. He whose time of learning, in life, has ended, has expelled himself from it!
Read more“The greatest gift my father gave me is the sea”. These were the words said to his children at dinner by one of the protagonists of the movie “The Goldfinch”, that is based on the novel by the American writer Donna Tartt. The words carried me back to the story of my drowning in the ...
Read moreEver since I saw you on this page, I have taken comfort in your vast expanse of ecclesiastical knowledge that is open to the world cultures, literature and poetry... I did not write these lines for praise, but for gratitude. I trust those who shatter our reality with the realistic belief that Man is naturally ...
Read moreWhen 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 moreWhat most people like is for you to praise them. If you have a beneficial word, do not expect it to be always accepted, if you said it. Those who accept the word are those who believe that God constantly addresses us in order to be better, that is, to be His and in His ...
Read moreI read the story of a woman, in the Netherlands, who came to church on a Sunday. When she went to a seat on which she was accustomed to sit, near the pulpit, she found a man, dressed in a normal attire, who had preceded her to it. She told him frankly: “You are sitting ...
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