When we project, on this Arab expanse, intimate expressions taken from our households, from our flesh and blood, or from what we believe in, we do not only mean to talk about an ancient kinship in which some of us go back to our father Abraham or our grandfather Adam, but rather about an ongoing ...
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The Priest of crises!
When crises become severe, I do not think that there is a priest in our time who is remembered by people, like Father George Massouh. George left us after having left, in many of his acquaintances, (the impression) that he had taken with him the whip with which he used to lash the dove sellers, ...
Read moreObeying the Goodness
Mahmoud Darwish’s recommendation to President Mahmoud Abbas was to tell those who are occupying their land: “take my mother’s land by the sword, still, I will not sign my name to sell even a single inch of the thistles around the corn fields”. The recommendation is valid for all the peers of the two Mahmouds ...
Read moreStop This Aggression
I watched the television interview, carried out last Wednesday by a Lebanese channel, with Metropolitan Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of Sebastia. This is a “loud voice” from deep within the occupied territories. What is noteworthy in the interview is that Metropolitan Hanna refused to call what is happening in his country a war. He said: “do ...
Read moreMan’s Dignity
What did the Fathers of Antioch mean by canonizing the two hieromartyrs Nicholas and his son Habib (Khasha)? In addition to bearing witness to the Truth, they wanted us to strengthen our connection with heaven. “This is the will of God, your sanctification”. It is true that this is declared by any canonization in the ...
Read moreHeaven is More Loyal
Yesterday, my friend did not sleep. News of the hospital in Gaza almost carried him where he does not wish. He said to me: how can I sleep while some people in Gaza are on the earth and some are under the earth? Upon my life, my bed will not accept me. There was a ...
Read moreBrethren and Books
What I do know, from the lore of my Church, I have brought it along from brethren and books. I will start with the brethren in order to be faithful to history, my own history, prior to them and with them. Prior to them, I had nothing to do with books. When I joined them, ...
Read moreOh, how Terrified the Beast is!
Yesterday, the beast revealed the full extent of its fear by bombing the "Baptist Hospital" in Gaza. Decrying the crime does not eliminate the participation in it of those who support the beast or have made peace with it. Who puts his hand in the hand of a beast who does not distinguish, when killing ...
Read moreThe Foundation of Peace
In Lebanon and the world, there are voices calling for appeasement on our border with Palestine. It seems that we have not all noticed that Israel asks for no one's opinion about its wars. Ontologically, it is constantly at war with two: with those whose land it covets, and those who hate its oppression and ...
Read moreAnother Opinion
Before I travelled, a friend of mine asked me to express an opinion on a matter that concerns him. He did not like my opinion. He left me and went away. I thought it ended here. When he found out that I was back, he came to greet me. We sat together. He immediately said ...
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