Orthodox Christian literature

A Better Day

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

I had told you, before, about the culture of the beautiful girls May, Mira, and Marianne Mitri. The older two gifted me with three novels. I was tardy in “unwrapping the gift” for a purpose I adopt in reading. I will tell you. In my house I have a bookcase in which I put the ...

28Mar

Of the Striving of the Coptic Church

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

I am amazed at the effort exerted by the Coptic Church in electronic (and paper) publishing. What is remarkable about this publication is that it is open to the thought of the Churches of the whole world. To lay before the eyes of your people what originated with others in whom you trust, this means ...

9Feb

A Writer's Diary

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

It is a great book by the great writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who went to God one hundred and forty-two years ago. I do not mean only that the book is large in its number of pages (681 pages of large size), but first of all by the vigor of its author in all the ideas ...