In one of the scenes of a film adapted from a novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, the protagonist appears alongside another girl helping her teach children in the church to memorize the Ten Commandments. When they reach the commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery", the two girls get interrupted ...
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The Best Reminder
Some readers expect the writers in our Church to turn the pens that are in their hands into whips. I think zeal is to be extolled. However, my belief that we cannot be renewed unwillingly makes me view this expectation with great caution. I am not accusing anyone of regarding reform as a purely human ...
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There are uses for expressing weakness, human weakness, I will mention two of them. The first, which is unlawful, is to justify the sins we commit, and the second is to glorify God for every good deed in which His might allows us to participate. It is a word that helps us strengthen our integrity ...
Read moreThe Order of the (Holy) Spirit
Faithfulness to God is a blessing that God does not discriminate in spreading and upholding. If we do not all rise to this awareness, expect the church communities to be ruled by sterile systems. A friend of mine who is, today, in the highest ranks of his church, used to say: “it is strange how ...
Read moreA River of Salvation
In the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul, with his saving ingenuity, pairs freedom with the service of love (5:13). Talking about freedom can, in no way, be established on the ruins of this pairing. You know the verse in Galatians. Nevertheless, I will remind you of it: “do not use liberty as an opportunity for ...
Read moreThe Time of Our Tears
The people whose tears have shaken me in recent days are not few in number. Never in our lives have we known such anxiety in this expanse that is swaying between one death and another, especially when people’s money is locked up in the banks. Our country, in its details, is torn up by corruption. ...
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My friend Ali works in the area in which I live. I see him once a week, at least. In short, he is a man of joy. Every time you see him and talk to him, he calls you to cast off your worries and follow him in his joy. I know his secret. His ...
Read moreBe Patient!
Life is not only a house of traumas, but also of consolations. How do we survive the trauma? This is impossible without an experience that allows us to be a cause of consolation. I am not simplifying the crisis for you. I am not telling you anything that is difficult for you to know. Like ...
Read moreThe Best Companion
Life in Christ is communion. The psalmist said: “I am a companion of all who fear You and keep Your commandments” (Psalm 118:63). I would not be diminishing what the Scriptures say about the communal life if I said that these words are the most eloquent of what has been said about it. I am ...
Read moreA Better Hope
I have told you (on March 30) about Maxim Gorky’s novel “Mother”, which was offered to me by the beautiful sisters May and Mira Metri. When I read it, I recalled with an effort the forgotten letters (page 102). Who will raise us, in our country, from this exhausting slumber that seems to have no ...
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