Pascha is to be extended. The question: how do I live in a Paschal way?, cannot be answered except by reflecting on what was said in the prayers of the feast. I will remind you firstly that the believer attends the divine service, whatever its occasion, that is, he prepares himself for it, and then, ...
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Signs of the Divine Love
I hold fast to a story that does not leave us in the Lenten prayers, namely, the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). There are three signs of divine love that are manifest in the father’s stances in the story. The first sign is that, when the younger son asked for “the portion of ...
Read moreThe Newness of Jesus
He who knows something about the meanings of the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father Who art in heaven) does not miss that, in it, Jesus has called on us to break the distance which God had broken between Himself and us. This is not revealed only by His calling on us that with boldness we may ...
Read morePagnol Taught Me
Before I read French writer Marcel Pagnol’s novel “My Mother’s Castle” (Le Château de ma Mère), I had no idea that the snake eats at widely spaced intervals (Pagnol says: “once a month”, page 75). This is an ignorance that has been entrenched in me by my distancing myself from all that pertains to the ...
Read moreOverwhelming Words!
I parked my car far away from the hospital, where regular check-ups were awaiting me, and I started walking. This was a few days ago. Before I arrived, I entered a church adjoining the hospital, which used to call me to enter every time I passed by its door that is always open during the ...
Read moreAlive in God
I am not a liturgist. However, my conviction is firm that the Great Lent, in its laid down structure, reveals that Pascha, which is the destination of Lent, overshadows all the days of fasting. One of the brethren asked me a few days ago: “the selected Gospels for Sundays during the Great Lent are all ...
Read moreWider Than the Heavens
There are two in the world about whom it was said that they are wider than the heavens, the Virgin Mary, the Mother who was capable of holding in her womb the Word Who is un-circumscribable, and those who have learned that “he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Let us not say ...
Read moreTo Be Patient
We have no share in getting over the hardships of this life unless we learn to be patient. Only he who is patient knows that, for the God Who is present with us, in all circumstances, it is impossible to forget us in our hardships.
Read moreJudgement of the Heart
Flee from justifying the sin. Flee from throwing accusations at heaven and earth. Are you seeking integrity, truly? Accuse yourselves, from the bottom of your heart. Man is not healed from the affliction of sins before the guilty is handed over to be judged (Matthew 15:19)!
Read moreThe Secret of Love!
To be well-established in the fact that love is acceptance, the acceptance of those who love us or who love no one, this is the secret of love in its horizontal dimension. To love is to love others with the beauty that we see in them and the beauty that we do not see, with ...
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