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On the 50th anniversary of his consecration, we reflect on the ministry of Metropolitan George (Khodr). His life teaches that true spiritual authority is not management, but an act of love. This profound, liberating love, the very heart of church administration, empties itself so that others might see their own greatness in God.
Read moreI followed some loathsome statements hurled by people among us at activities in which the organizers sought to promote Christians’ unity. Those who are perfect have the suffering of Christ in themselves. History does not go backward! If it were to do so, I would have loved to know the opinion of those who had ...
Read moreLove always. Love the one you deem worthy of being loved or you deem worthy of nothing. Life consists of victories and losses. He who loves cannot lose.
Read moreTo be well-established in the fact that love is acceptance, the acceptance of those who love us or who love no one, this is the secret of love in its horizontal dimension. To love is to love others with the beauty that we see in them and the beauty that we do not see, with ...
Read moreIn more than one place, there are people who are eaten up with a sick fanaticism. In an expanse in which the sectarians’ rule is growing, they do not speak only of the rights of the denomination, their own denomination exclusively, but rather of their divine right to label others as well; they speak for ...
Read moreOne of the contemporary fathers wrote: “sometimes, an icon can be written for you, and at other times, a hateful story. We all combine this terrible contradiction”! When I read these words, I thought that their writer, when writing them, had borrowed his parlance from the Pharisee of the temple (Luke 18: 10-14). I do ...
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