Oh Jesus, I have read about the events of this great day in Your great Gospel. You were aware of everything that would happen to You; indeed in both Your silence and Your words, You were saying that You only "came for this hour". You ordered the preparation of the Last Supper. You rejected Judas' ...
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Holy Week
Great Wednesday
Oh Jesus, O God Who holds the end in His hand. Today, we have concluded the first three days of the Great Week. Each day has brought us benefits based on action and its opposite. On Monday, we stood before the fruitful Joseph and the barren fig tree. On Tuesday, we faced the five wise ...
Read moreNadia Nasrallah
Nadia Nasrallah thrives on the love of the Word. You see her, in all her appearances, extending kind words here, and expressing admiration there with flowers that seem as if she plucked them from the courtyard of her fraternal home in the Keserwan district (Mount Lebanon), or prayers she brought from her Church as tokens ...
Read moreDr. Elie Aramouni
Something broke in me when I knew that Dr. Elie Aramouni has prepared his departure to God. People are One Body in Christ. I like to interpret this by saying that, with his departure, I lost a great support. I recall him the day my wife fell ill in 2008. He was one of a ...
Read moreA Feast for All
The feast passed by some brethren of ours without their taking notice! A salvific event is taking place for our sakes. By adhering to it in the communion of the Church, I am declaring that I am grateful to God for bestowing His love on me. It is not true that the feast is a ...
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The feast of the raising of Lazarus, celebrated by the Church in the past on this day, was one of the four days on which the qualified catechumens used to receive the sacrament of baptism. Two things are essential in the celebration of this feast: the first is that the position of the feast seems ...
Read moreThe Great Week
All the prayers of the Great and Holy week, service by service, even word by word, are enchanting and alluring. You know. Prayer consists of attention. Our Fathers have warned us against chasing beauty that drives the mind to distractedness. They said what means that we should go through the prayers, whether communal or individual, ...
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