I do not believe that there is a word used in the history of people to defend a beloved brother surrounded by shameless accusations or condemned by his church for committing a heinous crime, crowding out the word of Jesus: “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first” ...
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Bigotry
I will take you with me on a quick journey to explore some of the courtesy nuances expected in understanding the Arabic language. Yesterday, I tried to delve into the meaning of the word "taʿassub" (Bigotry). Firstly, I found “the elder adorned his head with a band”. Then, meanings unfolded before me. “He was partial ...
Read moreThe Meaning of Life
In the period preceding the feasts of Theophany, the Church engaged us in the beauty of celebrating the feasts of several apostles and prophets. Following the leave-taking of the feast, it plants for us, in our present days, other feasts for the saintly Fathers, that is, for many of them, namely the righteous fathers, the ...
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The layout of the feasts of “Theophany” reveals that Jesus is a God Who is immersed in danger, surrounded by a threat from here and there, a God Who is, by and large, on the run and rejected. On the feast of Nativity, no biblical phrase hurts more than that of Luke the Evangelist: “there ...
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There are several things that leapt out at me upon reading the recent document in which Rome allowed the blessing of same-sex couples. I will mention three of them now. The first is to separate the blessing from the work of the Church Sacraments. The second is to separate it from God, given that the ...
Read moreThe Connection of Life
A friend of mine told me that he had read a statistical study about the countries to which some of their emigrants return. He said that Lebanon is one of them. There are Lebanese people who do not leave their country until the end. When I heard him, I did not ask him for any ...
Read moreA Call In Prayer
During the congregational prayer, I found myself standing behind him. I was there before he arrived. Everyone in the church had taken their places. The priest who celebrates the service was inside the altar; the chanters were in their place; the faithful were distributed, each on a seat. The new words were arising from here ...
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This woman, shown in the picture, praying in front of a shrine separated from my son’s house by a public park, is one of the stories of God’s victories in this cold region. I am writing about her. I am overriding my conviction that prayer is a secret that is not to be disclosed. I ...
Read moreThe Face of Jesus
In my son’s house, an icon of Jesus is placed above the entrance door. My son knows that it is not part of our heritage to put the icon in our homes, in other than an inner room, in the place of prayer, on the eastern wall. The icon is not for public display, but ...
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The Feast of Transfiguration is these few words said by those who have written down the event: “when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only” (see for example: Matthew 17:8). I am not attenuating the glow of the event: the light, Moses and Elijah, what God the Father had ...
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