Since the Sunday following Pascha, the apostle Thomas, by saying to the Living Christ, "My Lord and my God", has charted for us the course to Pentecost. The Holy Spirit will descend upon us to guide us all, both as a community and as individuals, to recognize that Christ is our Lord and God. "No ...
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The Creativity of Baptism
The Spirit has inscribed upon each of us in our baptism that we belong to Him, to Him alone, for the building and flourishing of His Church and for the service of witness on earth. Creativity lies in faithfulness to what the Spirit has inscribed.
Read moreA Human Invention
There are numerous problems in our Church reality that require great effort to overcome. Today, I will mention to you one of them, the problem of dwelling too much on using the past, whether distant or recent, to the detriment of the present, i.e., this excessive regard for the eloquence of yesterday as a means ...
Read moreThe Order of the (Holy) Spirit
Faithfulness to God is a blessing that God does not discriminate in spreading and upholding. If we do not all rise to this awareness, expect the church communities to be ruled by sterile systems. A friend of mine who is, today, in the highest ranks of his church, used to say: “it is strange how ...
Read moreUnity of the Christians
I mention, with sadness, that we have not succeeded, in this great East, in completing any serious contribution, that was started among us by great Elders, for the unity of Christians. I am not only talking about unity between East and West, but also about healing the rift that occurred in our own home, first ...
Read moreTo Metropolitan Saba Esper
It is a word of thanks that I send to you first, to Sayyedna Alexander, and to the brethren priests for accepting me among you as one of you in your beautiful Church. I have spent fifty days there, during which I felt at home, as you had told me in your familiar voice. I ...
Read moreThe Spirit is With Us
I have mentioned to you that, after Pentecost, the Church entrusts us to the care of the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no walk with God. What matters to me in these lines is for us to abide by the Words of Jesus that are read to us by the Church on these ...
Read moreThird Sunday After Pentecost
The committed brethren know that, in our Church, we refer most of the Sundays of the year to Pentecost. We say the first Sunday after Pentecost, or the third, or the twentieth... This sets before us to increase our trust in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, without Whom nothing of the mystery of the ...
Read moreThe Living Homily
The Saints’ setting off for the path of commitment is a Word for obedience, and their ending is a Word that narrates fluently and freely, without anyone’s permission, the glorious deeds of the Holy Spirit working in them. This is what was evoked in me through my reading of the awaited book: “Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, ...
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 ...
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