A great friendship used to unite me with my eldest grandson before they left three years ago. Travel did not ruin our friendship. However, it made the boy set a distance between himself and me, which, to this day, I have not been able to decipher. I thought of two things, that he considered me ...
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Orthodox Christian life
To Metropolitan Saba Esper
It is a word of thanks that I send to you first, to Sayyedna Alexander, and to the brethren priests for accepting me among you as one of you in your beautiful Church. I have spent fifty days there, during which I felt at home, as you had told me in your familiar voice. I ...
Read moreA Large Expanse
My trip to Canada ends today. A large expanse cannot be summed up in a few lines. The world is made up of things we like and things we dislike... Those who are aware of life here are able to know, if they have followed me in what I had written about my trip, that ...
Read moreMore Delightful and Eloquent
The journey has helped me to write to you from it and about it. I have tried to remain here, to pick out my words from it. It was not always the images that were my purpose, but rather what was behind them. How does this entire world prostrate to God? This is what I ...
Read moreAn Accepted History
A few days ago, my daughter-in-law asked me about my younger days. I told her, in detail, about my father, about his death, which taught me, early on, to put a distance between myself and all people. My father handed me the responsibility for his household early on. I set out to the working world ...
Read moreThe Adequate Beauty
The question, which I have heard here many times, is: “how do you see life here?” Life is beautiful. There is no way to compare this city from the distant world to any other city I have ever known in my life. Yesterday, I told some of my friends: “if we decide in Lebanon, to ...
Read moreThe Spirit of Life
A few days ago, I left the house at ten in the morning for a walk. The temperature at that time of the day was high. I am not speaking, assertively, about a climate that people here know is variable. Opposite me, on a bicycle, was a woman who, when she drew close to me, ...
Read moreSome Change
My loving friend Nicolas Nassif, who dwells with God today, had told me, as an advice, that, to invigorate my life, I should leave my place of residence as well as my ministry for a few days a year, for two or three weeks, to another expanse and other faces. This advice has guided me, ...
Read moreThe Spirit of Antioch
After the Sunday Liturgy, a young man invited me to have a cup of coffee in the church hall. Explaining his invitation, he said: "perhaps some of the brethren would like someone to answer some questions they have". This is what happened. I spoke to them a little bit about commitment to God in a ...
Read moreA Lasting Vista
Here in this country, my son's house slumbers on the edge of a lake in a beautiful neighborhood where the day rivals the night in its calmness. The house consists of a basement, two stories, and a backyard that is surrounded by cypress trees. It is an extension to the neighborhood it is located in, ...
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