Ever since Father George Massouh departed to God’s mercy five years ago, I pledged to spend an hour or two a week at his home, with his wife and three daughters. I had always had my visits to this fraternal house, and they continued with a rhythm that found its way to becoming constant every ...
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Reforming the World
Yesterday, in a personal meeting, a friend of mine said: “many people among us live in deadly contradiction. You see them on the one hand hating death, and on the other hand putting to death the beautiful things planted by God in us”! I cannot describe to you the pains that these words have left ...
Read moreA Corrigible Mistake
In recent days, the number of electronic news sites in Lebanon has increased. Sometimes, you do not know if the administrators of these sites are really journalists, political aspirants, employees in the financial sector, clairvoyants, or geologists... You see them, most of them, insisting on philosophizing, being gloomy and staying in a darkened room with ...
Read moreWe are All Brethren
O for these days during which I got to be addressed by someone in the formal form! Who am I? I am a worm and not a man; a poor man who has not lost his memory. I told him to drop this formula. I said: “Jesus’ commandment to His disciples before He went to ...
Read moreA Good Prayer
At the Mattins of last Saturday's service, the hymnographer gave us to tell the Lord: “Give rest, O Lord, to the souls of Thy departed servants. To those hidden by the deep or cut down in battle, swallowed by earthquake, murdered, or consumed by fire, grant in Thy mercy a place with the faithful and ...
Read moreConcern for Others
During the pandemic, it became customary for people, in their joys and sorrows, to leave their phone numbers on formal announcements that they set, to receive congratulations or condolences. This reception style, which distanced us from one another on the one hand, has relieved us, on the other hand, of transmitting the disease and its ...
Read moreChurch Leadership
A friend of mine from Syria told me that there are Christians in his country who have divorced their commitment with their Churches. I did not ask him about the reasons for this “divorce”, about which I know the opinion of some brethren; but rather I spoke to him first about God’s freedom in love. ...
Read moreA Country Not Lethargy
My wife read what I had written a few days ago about our clinical death in Lebanon (26/1). She asked me: “Have you heard the joke people are circulating today?” She did not wait for me, but continued to say: "The entire Lebanese people are surprised that the entire Lebanese people are still silent (about ...
Read moreIncreasing Love
This is a time in which nothing saves us but solidarity and putting the interests of others before our own. Do not expect salvation from palaces that store up injustice and misery (Amos 3:10). Salvation lies in increasing active love in this time; yes, in this time and in every time.
Read moreSpiritual Pride
In the movie “The Two Popes,” Pope Benedict XVI, of thrice-blessed memory, (played by Anthony Hopkins) tells Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce), in their fictional dialogue: “we all suffer from spiritual pride, all of us. You must remember that you are not God… However, you must believe in the mercy that you ...
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