This is a day for all of us, young and old, to declare that we are with Christ, hoping to be accepted as members in His eternal kingdom. Our children with us are our expression that this is our upbringing and our legacy. Everything we carry with us, ourselves and our children, palm fronds and ...
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Prayer
Lent is also meant for us to pray and to love, to grow in our prayer and our love, our love for the Lord and for the brethren, both the great ones and the least ones (Matthew 25:40). Today I will talk to you about prayer. Only he who truly prays is actually fasting. Prayer ...
Read moreA Battlefield for the Light
Lent is described in tradition as a battlefield for spiritual warfares. It serves as a ground to expose darkness and repent of it. It is both a battlefield and a weapon. The darkness that besieges us in our days, is summoned by Lent to its tribunal for scrutiny. Weariness, sloth, anger, and doubt through which ...
Read moreWilderness in the City
Before the onset of Great Lent, I went out with two friends to visit Metropolitan George Khodr. I am saying "went out”. This is a verb I unsheathed from the parlance of the Monks who used to go out from their cells, at the beginning of Lent, seeking an elder from whom to solicit a ...
Read moreAnd the Breaking of Fast is More Potent for Them
Last Wednesday, Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over the Gaza Strip, citing the imminent Ramadan fast and calling in them for "tolerance and mercy". The inhabitants of the Strip received this repugnant trickery with indignation. They considered it a sacrilege to have Israel dispatch to them, with its deadly fires, leaflets containing phrases such as: “Feed ...
Read moreSunday of the Last Judgment
Those who adhere to the worship in our Church are aware that the four Sundays, with which we prepare ourselves for the Great Lent, take their names from the Gospel passages we read in the Divine Liturgy. The Sunday of the Last Judgment, or this Sunday, draws its name from a reading taken by the ...
Read moreA Fasting Day
I heard him say to some of our friends at a gathering that brought them together: “Fasting is a phase. Those who are conscious among us do not let it pass without scooping up what it gives us out of its bounty”. These words prompted me to think about what fasting bestows each day. I ...
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God the Meaning
Anything I separate from God is meaningless. I am meaningless. My life is meaningless; my emotions; my friendships; what I remember or forget is meaningless. My education is meaningless. What I do well or lamely is meaningless. My works and accomplishments are meaningless. My failure is meaningless. My marriage is meaningless; my children; my grandchildren. ...
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