The day before yesterday, we bid farewell to my daughter, who had spent three days among us. She said that this visit is a compensation for the Christmas visit that she will spend, God willing, at the house of her older brother, who was pushed out of Lebanon, along with his family, by the Beirut ...
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To Be Fertile
When a tiring virus whips away your voice, you find yourself in solitude. You do not believe that you are a world for yourself. Your belief is that, from the beginning, Man is extended towards God and people. Does the transient silence, upon which we have not decided, carry a call for us to decide ...
Read moreLoving Reform
My father hated lying the same way he hated blindness. Have I told you this before? He used to regard it as cowardice or as a rejection of reform. I bring back memories of my father from a distant past. I make him seem as if he is attached to God and His mind. Were ...
Read moreA Solution in Our Hands!
When I write about Lebanon, I have come to expect you to turn a blind eye to my lines. For Lebanon to become a true homeland for us, this, for most of us, is a dream preserved for a tomorrow to come. I have not given up on my optimism. In spite of my admitting ...
Read moreThe Work of Us All
The statement, which was issued by the fathers of the Antiochian Synod at the conclusion of their last meeting, magnifies the question about the believers who are concerned about their Churches today. Who of the believers today, in our Church and elsewhere, is really concerned about his Church? I am not concealing from you. I ...
Read moreThe Work Truly is Great
Yesterday, a young man shocked me with the news of his traveling. He went to an institution abroad that accepted him for a job. Everything was indicating that he had set out to dedicate his life to God. What happened? I do not give up hope. There are friends of mine who had preceded him ...
Read moreThe Harp of Victory
A friend of mine who visited me during the summer singled me out with a long evening in which he told me about the days of his emigration that he had decided after the explosion of Beirut on August 4, 2020. He told me, among other things, that emigration is “a journey into an unknown ...
Read moreThe Ink of Renewal
Committed writing always requires some of the serenity of hermitages. I dare say that it is some kind of asceticism! We can scent its perfume in the words of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (+1935): “I have no ambitions nor desires. To be a poet is not my ambition, it is simply my way of ...
Read moreThe Richness of the Saints
Some young friends invited me to meet with them. They wanted us to discuss the impact of the economic crisis and disease on the ecclesial commitment of people in our country. We met. We agreed on several matters, the most important of which was to be active in two things: in the love of commitment ...
Read moreA New Day
I went up to the roof of the building I live in. The day was almost far spent. My intention was not to watch the setting sun, which I love, in its rising and its setting, but rather to check the water in our tank. This is our state in the land of water; we ...
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