When 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 ...
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The Word is Not for Mockery
One of the major difficulties that are befalling us, in our Church and elsewhere, is that the leader in the congregation, whether a bishop or a priest, is mere flesh. What does a good heart benefit us? The leader who is of the flesh leads you to himself through his offensive condescending arrogance towards everyone, ...
Read moreFeast of All Saints
It is the feast of the active revelation that God wanted all Mankind with Him in His Kingdom. He who looks closely at the feast, especially in its ecclesial position, falling on the first Sunday after Pentecost, will notice, with no effort, that, through it, the Church intended to confirm her awareness that, while on ...
Read moreThe Confident Love
Why was Brother Tony Bitar, who was kept, today, from the brethren’s greetings by celebrating the feast in heaven, insistent, in his final stances, that the Antiochian Church canonizes Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, of thrice-blessed memory? I have two answers of which I will reveal one, and leave today the second, were we to live, to ...
Read moreThe Lord Is At Hand
Clinging to the elder brethren in the Church does not always indicate following them in love! There are people, who have accompanied elders, bishops, priests, and others, who followed them in worship meetings, and upon whom fell pearls from their words and deeds, and nevertheless, they remained alien to their secret, strangers to the awareness ...
Read moreAll-Saints Sunday
It is well known that our Church, whose liturgical year begins on September 1, is dominated by Pentecost (the Church labels most of its Sundays and weeks that they fall after Pentecost). This, in and of itself, reveals that, without the Spirit of God, we cannot walk ecclesiastically in the space of worship even one ...
Read morePerfection
The world does not have to accept that Man is called to be perfect (Matthew 5:48). However, we, as believers, have no meaning if we are not aware of this call, in thought and in deed. Does perfection consist in getting to God with acts of righteousness in our quiver that exceed evil acts in ...
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