Meaning of the Places

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

Brother Elias Haber, the new person in charge of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) branch in Hazmieh, conveyed to me the desire of the brethren in the Mount Lebanon Chapter to use the our Church hall on a date he mentioned to me. He did not wait for me to ask him about the occasion, ...

6Dec

Brother Tony Bitar

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

Those to whom God had given to spread the love of Jesus and His Church on earth are among the founders of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). This is not an addition to what took place on that blessed day, the 16th of March 1942, but rather it is the consummation of history to the ...

30Nov

Victoria Jabbour

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

Today, our Church in Latakia saw off the great sister Victoria Jabbour to eternal victory. In a few words, Victoria is one of the faces of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in the bride of the Syrian coast, and a mother in Christ to many in it and in our entire Antiochian expanse. She is ...

27Nov

Look for Saul

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

I woke up on Saturday morning repeating the expression: Look for “Saul” (Acts 9: 4). I know whom I am addressing. I am addressing brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Mount Lebanon who had invited me to participate in the evening opening of their annual conference. The opening program was faithful to our ...

6Nov

The Social Solicitude

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

I was struck by brother Rami Hosni’s article: “The Movement and the Social Solicitude” with which “An-Nour Magazine” opened its last issue. The basis of the article is that its writer saw, in the effort of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in social service, a faithfulness to the legacy of the great Fathers, and he ...

26Sep

Monday Morning

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

Every Monday at about nine in the morning, brother Tony Khoury calls on my home landline. This is a tradition that we have adopted since he was overtaken, during the Covid-19 period, by a health condition most traces of which have vanished, thank God. Brother Tony was a Secretary General to the Orthodox Youth Movement ...

6Sep

Gaby Habib

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

We have lost Gaby Habib, the beloved brother. Knowing him was one of the gifts of my commitment to the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). He has not always been here in Lebanon. Nevertheless, he has always been here! His humanity, rich in its depth and magnanimity, in addition to what I like to recall about ...

24Aug

To Salwa Hanna

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

It is not the years that rush by, not the years, but it is the love of the Word that grants the eye to work hard! Once, Metropolitan George Khodr said, in a fiery speech, to the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO): “wear out your eyes and guts in reading the Word”! The ...

8Jul

A Debt to Beirut

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

Days ago, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Beirut elected the beloved brother Rami Hosni as president of their chapter. Beirut is the place of my birth, physically as well as into the Movement, before the branches of the Movement in Mount Lebanon got together to form a new chapter. I will ...

26Jun

A New Election

Father Elia Mitri in Reflections

Today, the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Mount Lebanon elected Sister Nada Wazen as president of their chapter for the next two years. What they wanted, in this election, was to put before themselves a faithful face to complete with them their walk to the face of Jesus. I will tell you ...