One of the presidents of Lebanon used to say that there are two gratuitous cures that benefit life, and that are neglected by most Lebanese: drinking water and walking. These are two among other cures that we can add to them. For instance, prayer, friendship and reading... Let's take reading today. Reading a book, especially ...
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Orthodox Christian life
The Ministry of Reconciliation
Some of my friends asked me to receive a young man who was at odds with some of the brethren in his parish. He came, accompanied by a person whose parents I became friends with after he became independent from them, a person whom I know from outside his parents’ home. I invited them into ...
Read moreSelf-Discovery
Reverend Aiden Wilson Tozer (about whom I wrote to you at the beginning of the year) has written these seven rules for self-discovery: “1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Whom ...
Read moreA Beloved Disciple
Some time ago, I visited Metropolitan George Khodr at his home. I repeated before him the Lord’s words kept by John the Evangelist about the beloved disciple: “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?”. Among us, Metropolitan George seems to be, in more than one way, another image ...
Read moreThe Spirit is With Us
I have mentioned to you that, after Pentecost, the Church entrusts us to the care of the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no walk with God. What matters to me in these lines is for us to abide by the Words of Jesus that are read to us by the Church on these ...
Read moreThe Mind of God
When Jesus said to Peter: “you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men” (Matthew 16:23), He wanted him to abide by Him in what He is mindful of. How does Man think like God? This is a question whose answer requires that we return quickly to the context of ...
Read moreThe Ocean of Love
When you see yourself stuck in an ocean of triviality, flee from condemning people. I am not telling you to flee from them, but from the evil of condemning them. Visions carry along responsibility. If you are able to do something good to them, do not fail to do so. If you see them insisting ...
Read moreA New President
Watching them aroused my interest. I was walking in our neighborhood. There were a few young volunteers in the “Red Cross” standing in the middle of the road, and one of them, in bashful retreat, was carrying a box, hoping that those who are passing-by in their cars would freely place in it something of ...
Read moreThe Feast
When I committed myself to the Church life, I discovered the feast. Previously, the feast, for me, consisted of the two feasts, the small one and the great one, Christmas and Pascha. Any other ecclesiastical matter was of no concern to me. Commitment has given me to discover that any devotional gathering is a complete ...
Read moreThe Better Lebanon
There is no country like Lebanon that teaches you to “fend for yourself”: in your health safety; in your children’s education; in water and electricity, and in your commute… Do not expect from the country, that is, those who are supposed to rule it, to help you in anything. It is preoccupied with many things, ...
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