I laid eyes, by chance, on this Arabic aphorism: “he who obeys your staff, has disobeyed you”. I thought it would be beneficial to transfer it to my lines, to preserve it and to extend the benefit. The picture is clear. The saying is criticizing, with obvious severity, bringing people, by force, to obedience. It ...
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Obedience
To Keep the Commandments
If we review the Ten Commandments, especially those related to the neighbor, we notice that, in them, God calls us to renounce vice; namely: lying, adultery, killing, stealing… This is what prevails on earth. However, by exposing these commandments, God is not seeking to break us by recalling our weighty sins, but rather He is ...
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I had to lead a weekly group that brings me together with some brethren most of whom are married. I chose for myself to comment on the words of the Apostle to the Ephesians 6:1-4. The readers of the epistle know that Paul has prefaced his words on marriage and then on the family by ...
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Today, Metropolitan Saba Esper took off for America. He carried with him our love and prayers, and followed the decision of the Antiochian Synod to serve his new Archdiocese. His departure from us is anguish that can only be healed by our knowledge that all the faithful in the expanse of his new ministry, old ...
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Life is a constant struggle. Every human being is responsible for himself and for people, old and young. How does he who works in the light fall? I am not asking about the scandal of vices that unfold in the course of commitment, but rather about the secret of obedience. What is the secret of ...
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