Those with whom I actually continued to be friends, following their promotion in this life, are few. Who will remain the same, following a promotion, other than he who truly believes that this world is impermanent? A theology professor used to relate that there are students who, after being ordained priests, when they visit the ...
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The Time of Clarity
Every time my daughter feels that I am shocked by someone I used to place where he did not belong, she gives me her beautiful smile before saying: “excuse me, dad! The problem is not with him alone, but with you in the first place. You rush to put people in a place that does ...
Read moreThe Feast of Repentance
The Church, in arranging her congregational prayers, always moves towards set goals. The major feast is looked at from afar; the small one too... Repentance is one of the rules of this movement. However, repentance, in these days that extend from the feast of Theophany to the beginning of the preparation for the Great Lent, ...
Read moreGod's Action: Grace and Striving
Jesus said “your sins are forgiven”. He also said: “sin no more”. The first statement is not understood without the second. Gratuitousness and willingness. Grace and striving. Gifts and their investment. This is the completion of God's action in us.
Read moreThe Crown of Realism
Most people in the world today place fortune-tellers in high esteem. Not only do they agree with them in their delusion, but they also help them to empty the world of its content, that is to drown it in two things, in falsification and in history. I did not say in fake history, but rather ...
Read moreTo Bethlehem
A few days before the feast captivates us, the Church exhorts us to grow in seeking righteousness. You have noticed, on Sunday, the words of the Apostle, “worked righteousness” (Hebrews 11:33). He was telling his readers about believers whom they knew in the books. As always, the Word here is beneficial for emulation, that is, ...
Read moreOur Wealth
Praying to God is a wealth that no institution in this world, whether a banking institution or other, can seize it. I am not telling you: “do not ask about your “missing” money in Lebanon”, for example, but rather, “do not neglect your enduring wealth”. This is our wealth on earth as well as in ...
Read moreThe Other as Being Different
A close friend asked me: "why are there people in the world who refuse that we differ from them in anything?". This is based on Adam's sin. What does it mean that Adam, our forefather, wanted to be like God, apart from God? It means a lot of things, including that he was unable to ...
Read moreThe Gift of Reconciliation
A friend of mine summoned me to accompany him to visit his son. He told me that “the bridegroom (that is, his son), whom you had crowned, broke up with his wife. He was angry at her because she had hurt him in front of friends who were visiting them. I want you to help ...
Read moreAt the House of Friendship
My wife and I were at the house of two friends of ours. The mistress of the house told us that their parish priest always repeats these words to them: “if the devil is not able to bring us down into sin, he will distract us from our good in a thousand ways”. Then she ...
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