The priests are there to serve. Their faces are a destination for the people, particularly the poor and the oppressed... I do not believe there is a single believer who, if in need of a service, any service, can feel at ease asking for it from anyone as he would from a priest (the priest ...
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Orthodox ministry
A Teaching Expanse
This page has taught me that there are diverse readers, all of whom must be accepted. Readers who make you feel that they are participating with you in the causes of the Word you are serving require no effort to accept, but rather constant gratitude. Other readers, who stubbornly oppose everything or do not read ...
Read moreThe Greatest Ministry
What strikes us first in the account of the Myrrh-bearing women (Mark 15:43-16:8) is their determination to go to Jesus' tomb. They knew that there was a great stone at the entrance that would hinder them from reaching their goal. Yet, they pressed onward. This is our lesson. When we seek God in any circumstance, ...
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He was struck by an "article" I had written about the deaconess of Alexandria Angelic Molen (May 13) who was elevated to archdeaconess on Great Saturday. He was concerned that this ordination may be a preliminary step to ordaining women as priests. I responded with what he already knows: "That the major Churches explicitly believe ...
Read moreTo Nadim Salloum
Tomorrow, His Eminence Metropolitan Silouan Moussi will ordain you as a deacon in our beautiful church in "Downtown Bhamdoun". Oh the joy of your father and mother! It is not my place to advise you with words, for you were raised on more eloquent ones in a household from which many among us seek guidance ...
Read moreTen Years
This page, initiated by brother Dany Obeid ten years ago, is currently operated, alongside myself, by a multitude of friends. Let me introduce them to you. It is managed by brother Karim Bou-Khalid. Along with him are two brothers, namely, Father Louay Hanna and his brother Laith, the artist who edits it with its fresh ...
Read moreAnd His Servants Shall Serve Him
In the neighborhood I grew up in, the faithful used to ascribe the priest to God. This is the aura of the saints! Even before I took an interest in committing to the Church life, I used to get moved by my mother when she conveyed her joy to us upon the visit of our ...
Read moreThe Mother First
It is a word that I repeat for the good of us all, in whatever position we may be. It is about time, in our churches, that we repent of individuality and improvisation. We are here, in this expanse whose emptying is required, and which is the origin of the Christian dissemination throughout the entire ...
Read moreFather Nader Salloum
Today, in our Church in Qsaibe, Deacon Nader Salloum received the blessing of the priesthood by the laying on of hands of the Metropolitan of Mount Lebanon, Silouan Moussi. The new priest will be assisting, in the service of the parish of Nativity of the Theotokos Church (Mansourieh), Father Younes Younes, who had abandoned the ...
Read moreAn Eloquent Lesson
After my ordination as a priest, Metropolitan George Khodr sent me to help one of the brethren priests in our Archdiocese. The first Divine Liturgy in which I participated with him was the Paschal Divine Liturgy. During the Liturgy, when the priest had read the Gospel, he turned to me and said, without preamble: “the ...
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