A few days ago, I went to my library. I wanted a book, the reading of which would keep me in Gaza! First, I looked for Metropolitan George Khodr’s book “Al-Quds”, the introduction of which was written by the poet Mahmoud Darwish. I did not find it. I looked for another book, about “Prophecy and ...
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The Sin of the World
Our Christian heritage said about Adam and Eve that they sinned by disobeying God and His Word. However, the lure that led them to this disobedience was “and you will be like gods” (Genesis 3:5). This is the sin of the world from which every sin flows: for a person to think that, without God, ...
Read moreChrist of the Ozarks
A theologian minister in the West told about his visit to the huge and towering “Christ of the Ozarks” statue, which is installed on a hill in Eureka Springs, Arkinsas, USA. He mentioned two things, his excitement about visiting the beautiful city, and next, his shock that the statue, representing Christ Who triumphed over death, ...
Read moreThe Victory of Love
A God Who dies, this is the manifestation of love in the world. God’s ever-bleeding wound lies in the fact that we all have not understood that He is love. Most people, absolutely most of them, if they go through a hardship, still hasten to incriminate Him. God, the God of the world, is accused ...
Read moreTo Fr. Nehme Saliba
What does it mean for a priest to progress in knowledge? Firstly, it means that he believes that the Word, which is ever seeking to be incarnated in the world, draws out as well, from “the flesh of the world”, what words God has sown that help understand it. This is well-known to the one ...
Read moreThe Lord Was Not in the Earthquake
This is a title taken from the account of the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 19:11). After he slaughtered the prophets of Baal, Elijah was hiding in a cave to escape from Jezebel, king Ahab’s wife. The Lord spoke to him to go out and stand on the mountain. Then a wind passed by, and the ...
Read moreGod is Love
No one knows anything, except he who knows that God, hallowed be His Name, loves us more than we know.
Read moreGod is One
The first title, which occurred to me before I wrote these lines, was: "the Unity of Christians". My intention was not to write about the desired unity, but about what can make us deserve it, that is, about the openness we need to have at a time when many do not see any good in ...
Read moreThe Orthodox Way
In his book “The Orthodox Way”, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, of thrice-blessed memory, who has fallen asleep in the Lord yesterday, had confirmed my conviction that a professional theologian is someone who walks, with confidence, in and out of the house! No one knows the house like its people. Moreover, no one like them knows how ...
Read moreMy God, Why have You Forsaken Me?
This question is the opening of the twenty-first psalm. The exegetes held that, when Jesus said on the Cross, “My God, why have You forsaken Me!”, He was but praying this psalm. In the midst of pain, at the time of death, talking to God transcends everything that befalls us on earth, a testimony that ...
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