You are actively engaged in doing good deeds. Great! But why do you fill your websites with pictures of your activities? Is it for encouragement? Are you suggesting that there are many people who do not realize that they are charitable people, and you want them to get encouraged, to take action? I am asking ...
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Beware of Idols
In these daily reflections, I do not write messages to people who have annoyed me in something. I know that, at times, I can be annoying. This bothers me and does not bother me! I do not like to be a cause of annoyance to anyone. However, neither do I like a person to live ...
Read moreSunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
The Church brings us today into the period of preparation for the Great Lent. The Gospel passage she reads to us (Luke 18:9-14) confers its name on this Sunday. The story of the parable is simple. A Pharisee and a tax collector enter the temple to pray. The former praises himself and looks down on ...
Read moreThe Right of Others
If you consider it your right to criticize others for actual sins, you have no right to be saddened by someone who had addressed a remark to you that you deemed out of place.
Read moreThe Significance of Man
Friends tell me that there are people who, if you text them on their phone, they do not answer you on the spot, some for lack of attention, some others for being busy, and some last ones in order to give themselves a value they deem they are entitled to. Is the story of the ...
Read moreMeekness of Kings
I 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 ...
Read moreNothing
Most of the people by whom Satan likes to be hosted, to sip his morning coffee with, to amuse himself with their news, and to encourage them to do everything that pleases him, are those who regard themselves as something in their own eyes!
Read moreDaring to Confess
An acquaintance of mine paid me a visit, and asked me to moderate his meeting with a mutual friend whom I know that he, that is my visitor, had wronged. I thanked him for his trust. However, I asked him that our meeting be imbued with frankness. He said: "It is not necessary for us ...
Read moreBlessed is He Who Comes
We drew closer to Pascha. Pascha has been with us since the beginning of Lent. Its scent adhered to everything, to what it requires, to its prayers, to its topics, to the brethren’s faces, to the saints who were implanted in it. We do not believe that we, on our own, are capable of achieving ...
Read moreWider Than the Heavens
There are two in the world about whom it was said that they are wider than the heavens, the Virgin Mary, the Mother who was capable of holding in her womb the Word Who is un-circumscribable, and those who have learned that “he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Let us not say ...
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