The Church is the home of incarnate thought; the home of talents which agree on regenerating the body and the work of good; the home of openness; the home of comfort and service; the home that is wide open for the sake of the holiness of the world. Last Saturday, I met with brethren in ...
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Orthodox Youth Movement
A Precious Call
On the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, after the Divine Liturgy, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement, in Hazmieh, organize every year a general meeting in a mountainous area, in which they enjoy nature together, and share the Word, bread and salt. This year, I did not participate with them in their ...
Read moreBearing Witness Before the Church
When I set about writing the book “Bearing Witness Before the Church”, which is a reading in the third epistle of John, I was seized by the idea of not sending it for publication before I made a pilgrimage to the house of the Apostle in the city of Ephesus, and there, get to inhale ...
Read moreTo Father Luke Abdo
Those who came from the womb of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) do not lack the knowledge that the Church is the life of obedience to God. You remember that Metropolitan George Khodr, who saw in you what convinced him that you were born to serve God and His people, used to repeat to us ...
Read moreThe Troparion of Pentecost
The troparion of Pentecost (Blessed are You, O Christ our God…) takes me back to the faces of the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Beirut, to their very old house in “the little mountain” that used to bring us together in the eighties of the last century. At the onset of my ...
Read moreFools for Christ’s Sake
During Lent, we hold, on Wednesday evening and Friday morning, a communion service that we call the Presanctified Liturgy. Like every communal service, this cannot be carried out by the priest alone. He needs brethren to participate in carrying it out, among them at least, a chanter, a reader, and an altar servant. I know ...
Read moreMy Mother Said
My mother came to the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) because of what she was seeing with her early-ailing eyes. Without entering any one of its halls, she joined it with love, which is stronger than every illness. This was before we joined the ranks of the Movement, that is, before my sister grew up in ...
Read moreThe Regeneration Secret
Today, in our difficult time on more than one level, I would like to pay tribute to the young brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) who are striving to serve the regeneration of their Church in this Antiochian expanse, in word and deed. I do not mean only the revered brethren who are watching ...
Read moreTo the Brethren Abroad
At the beginning of this Great Lent, I am addressing, first, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). I allow myself to address you, empowered by your love. You have all learned that the poor, of whichever religion or sect… is the face of a god. Today, you see him in your new places. ...
Read moreThe Confident Love
Why was Brother Tony Bitar, who was kept, today, from the brethren’s greetings by celebrating the feast in heaven, insistent, in his final stances, that the Antiochian Church canonizes Metropolitan Boulos Bendaly, of thrice-blessed memory? I have two answers of which I will reveal one, and leave today the second, were we to live, to ...
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