O Jesus, ever since Your face shone to me on the faces of brethren who wished me to be with them in Your Church, I have been struck by holiness. I am here on the road leading to your Pascha. The feast is near yet distant! The days are passing by. But my shocks are ...
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Pascha preparation
The Great Lent
Fasting, for those who practice it with conscious conviction, is a public acknowledgment that the world is transient. We all know that this great fast is our path to Pascha, a journey to the feast, as Father Alexander Schmemann, of blessed memory, used to call it. However, Pascha cannot be attained without the cross, without ...
Read moreDr. Elie Aramouni
Something broke in me when I knew that Dr. Elie Aramouni has prepared his departure to God. People are One Body in Christ. I like to interpret this by saying that, with his departure, I lost a great support. I recall him the day my wife fell ill in 2008. He was one of a ...
Read moreThe Canaanite Woman
When Pascha is delayed, the Church chooses for the Sundays that precede the preparation for Lent, gospel accounts that also give us an overview of the feast from afar. Last Sunday, for example, we read the Gospel of Zacchaeus, the tax collector who wanted to see Jesus. Today, we read the story of the Canaanite ...
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