Metropolitan George Khodr said in a homily delivered at Deir Al-Balmand: "When you reach the point of saying (about yourself) that you are nothing, you become a Christian. Before this, you are not a Christian, (you are) nothing" (June 29, 2016). Today I convey to you this word, which some of you may have personally ...
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The Homeland of Clarity
Heaven is truly the homeland of clarity. This reveals those who struggle, on earth, to establish firmly their belonging to it.
Read moreThe Significance of Man
Friends tell me that there are people who, if you text them on their phone, they do not answer you on the spot, some for lack of attention, some others for being busy, and some last ones in order to give themselves a value they deem they are entitled to. Is the story of the ...
Read moreWho Am I?
The error does not always come to us through wrong doors. There are errors to which we enter through legitimate doors. I will give you an example. Most people, nowadays, set their goals in life before they really know themselves or what God has created them for. Who am I? This is a question that ...
Read moreHe Who Loves
Love always. Love the one you deem worthy of being loved or you deem worthy of nothing. Life consists of victories and losses. He who loves cannot lose.
Read moreJanuary First
Today, I am struck by the meaning that this day holds for many in the world as being a vantage point that allows them to overlook an entire year. God has given us today, which means that He resides in it with us. Our entire history, past, present and future, has no meaning if we ...
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 moreThe Truly Living
Do not accept to sit on the sidelines of life, to ascend neutrality, which is competed over by the dead, as your throne! The truly living are the ones who are concerned that this worldly life be more mindful, loving and peaceful!
Read moreSeeing the Goodness
A truly conscious person refuses to be ruled by a sick or distorted memory in any matter, political or personal... Nothing is harder than the disappearance, for a while, of the history of wounds within us. Am I talking about a curable disease? Yes, if we break the mirrors that drive us to crucify others ...
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!
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