Yesterday, and the day before, I had the opportunity to participate in a part of an internal conference held by the Mount Lebanon chapter of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). Palestine was present, with its wounds and our hopes for it, first in the homily given by Metropolitan Silouan Moussi, during the Vespers prayer that ...
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The World of Injustice
If you rebuke injustice in the world, do not expect to be accepted in it. Injustice is a full expression of the apostasy of the world. Rebuke. If tongues rage against you, understand that this world does not consider you part of it!
Read moreTheir Right to Life
A friend of mine told me about an interview that a media outlet carried out with a Palestinian child. Today, Palestine has not only remained the companion of our hearts and our prayers, but has also become the companion of every one of our gatherings, every passing or planned encounter. My friend tried to find ...
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I would have liked to title these lines: “no brain”. Indeed, there is no sense in a savage entity that believes that no one else is entitled to life. Am I looking at the Palestine war with a single eye? It is not for me to compare the monster to the victim. I am talking ...
Read moreBearing Witness to the Truth
A friend of mine, who is majoring in political science at the university, asked me to suggest a title for a paper required of him at his university. I did not provide an answer. I prompted him to write about the neutrality of our peoples in most crucial matters on which we are expected to ...
Read morePeace be upon Palestine
Yesterday, a friend of mine, of Palestinian descent, who lives in Mount Lebanon, called me and started telling me what she has learned from her communication with her family and relatives, in Palestine, in the last two days. She said: “The Israelis have unleashed their insane hatred on the people in our country”. She did ...
Read moreThe Worthiest Desire
I used to believe that there is no one in the world who, like your father and mother, would want you to live. Jesus’ word “I have come that they may have life…” (John 10:10), was one of my proofs to myself of His fatherhood to all creation. However, this summer, I made a new ...
Read moreThe School of Life
Only he who learns that life is a school that never shuts its doors, and out of which the outstanding students do not graduate before they depart from, is able to overcome the shocks of life. He whose time of learning, in life, has ended, has expelled himself from it!
Read moreThe Goldfinch Taught Me
“The greatest gift my father gave me is the sea”. These were the words said to his children at dinner by one of the protagonists of the movie “The Goldfinch”, that is based on the novel by the American writer Donna Tartt. The words carried me back to the story of my drowning in the ...
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Ever since I saw you on this page, I have taken comfort in your vast expanse of ecclesiastical knowledge that is open to the world cultures, literature and poetry... I did not write these lines for praise, but for gratitude. I trust those who shatter our reality with the realistic belief that Man is naturally ...
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