Do you consider this night to be different? Difference in life is responding to grace and its actions. I have a suggestion of which I hope, if you see fit, that you take, tonight, what agrees with you. This world is full of difficulties and wounds. To turn it into spaces for what is good, ...
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Moses’ Heirs
Here, my answer was the same to any young brother who asked me for advice: take from this country what knowledge you think you are capable of or that which it offers you, and take its languages, for your own edification and the prosperity of a country that awaits you. Do not care for any ...
Read moreThe Village
Here, I learned that the word "Canada", in the Iroquoian language (the ethnic language of Quebec), is derived from the word "kanata", which means village. No word in the world seduces me like this word: village. This is not an objection on my part to the fact that I was born in a city and ...
Read moreA Tribute to the Free People
I visited them. They had a guest whom I know at a distance. They prepared coffee for us. When the guest held his cup in one hand, he took out of his pocket, with his other hand, a pack of smokes. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it as if he was sitting alone ...
Read moreThe Comparison Complex
“Do not compare yourself with anyone”, is the fortieth of the fifty-five maxims of Father Thomas Hopko. I chose it for today’s lines, as a sample of his maxims, for a variety of reasons, among which is that it makes us feel that it is both private and public, that is, it will benefit you ...
Read moreRedeem the Time
Friends tell one another what one keeps repeating to himself. Be generous with those you love. Generosity does not consist in burdening yourself with what you have no ability to do. In essence, it is an expression. Sometimes, the rose, in substance, is worth a mountain… Some or most of our loved ones need to ...
Read moreChildren's Peace Over Anger
Destroy my remembrance before you let me see a child trembling from his parents’ screams. What have we to do with living life close to anger. That our children settle down in peace is far more precious than to have anyone remember that we were ever here.
Read moreA Great Good
On New Year’s Eve, many of us are ruled by trying customs, such as listening to fortune-tellers, or shooting in the air, getting drunk and dancing… As different as these customs are and their different contexts and meanings, I bring them together as a reminder that the mature among you know the illusion of them ...
Read moreOur Salvation Way
“I…I…”, her voice reached me from her home defending herself from insulting words. A man was bellowing at her with such mad force that I was outside following up on what was going on as if I were at home with them. I was walking past the building they were in. The sound of the ...
Read moreDissension from the Word
When they explain the Apostle Paul’s words: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7), some people dissent from God’s intent. They say that “the true believer” is inevitably, that is, always, stronger than any “psychological disorder”! You do not ...
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