The Great Lent is also a time for reading, a journey towards greater understanding of the word and its meanings. You know that there are books provided by the Church that offer us eternal nourishment during Lent (the New Testament, The Ladder of Divine Ascent...). This encourages us to establish a special tradition of reading, ...
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The Testimony of Freedom
When one of the members of the strivers’ Church ever insults the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29), this causes damages to her life and her testimony. I am speaking of all the committed people, laymen, monks, deacons, priests, and bishops! Yesterday, I read news on an electronic media outlet about two monks, from an independent ...
Read moreA Human Invention
There are numerous problems in our Church reality that require great effort to overcome. Today, I will mention to you one of them, the problem of dwelling too much on using the past, whether distant or recent, to the detriment of the present, i.e., this excessive regard for the eloquence of yesterday as a means ...
Read moreUnity of the Christians
I mention, with sadness, that we have not succeeded, in this great East, in completing any serious contribution, that was started among us by great Elders, for the unity of Christians. I am not only talking about unity between East and West, but also about healing the rift that occurred in our own home, first ...
Read moreA Night for the Good
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, ...
Read moreTo Meet the Lord
Do not follow those who say that when Man dies, he takes his secrets with him. Man takes nothing with him from his secrets except those that he did not confess to here, that is, those that he did not repent of. Are there things that you are ashamed to carry with you to meet ...
Read moreThank You
I would like to dedicate my contribution today, at the end of this year, to thank the friends who accompany me in what I write to you every day. I first thank those of them who provide me with headlines that would have been difficult for me to know of all of them, especially during ...
Read moreA Better Hope
I have told you (on March 30) about Maxim Gorky’s novel “Mother”, which was offered to me by the beautiful sisters May and Mira Metri. When I read it, I recalled with an effort the forgotten letters (page 102). Who will raise us, in our country, from this exhausting slumber that seems to have no ...
Read moreTo Nahida Anton
Your slaying, my lady, before Christmas, by a criminal sniper on the premises of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, then the slaying of your daughter Samar and the wounding of seven others with you, was new proof of Israel’s folly. Did the criminal intend to kill you or to kill the feast in Gaza? ...
Read moreResignation Badge of Honor
It is forbidden to object to the crime to which Gaza is being subjected! It is forbidden to think that there is a people who has been suffering, for nearly a century, from the neglect of the world, the injustice of the world and the insanity of a world that can only see with one ...
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