He is our companion to Pascha. His memory resonates in the prayers of the Great Lent from beginning to end. In the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), God has been revealed to be a God Who does not want anything as much as He wants us to be free with Him, regardless of ...
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With One Voice
I do not know where we were last night, in the Forum de Beirut or some other place to which the Spirit of God had captured us. Chanters, from several churches, were gathered to chant, with one voice, to God, our One God. This is the third day of the Week of Prayer for Christian ...
Read moreDeliverance of the City
After the Divine Service on Sunday, one of the young men who help in the altar rushed to me. He was holding his phone open to a website publishing news about the Saint Porphyrios Church, in southern Gaza, the annexes of which had been demolished by Israel, a month ago, on its residents. This is ...
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My Joy!
Discover the Ministry of Joy in Christianity - Christ's Resurrection as the Source of Comfort and Hope. Explore the power of consoling one another with the words of Pascha during times of grief and sorrow.
Read moreThe Divine Ascension
The Feast of the Divine Ascension is another aspect of Pascha. Christ, Who by His death has conquered death, is revealed as King over the universe. When we say He has ascended, we do not mean that in His Divinity, He has acquired a new status, a lofty place in which He was not. He ...
Read moreUnderstanding the Word
A young girl, almost twelve years old, asked her mother about something I said in my homily, which was difficult for her to understand. Her mother encouraged her to take up her question and pose it to me. I love questions, from both the old and the young. Most or all of them help me ...
Read more“Tell My Brethren”
This is the word of the risen Jesus to "Mary Magdalene and the other Mary". His complete word to them is: “go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me” (Matthew 28:10). Two things strike me in this word. The first is the fragrance of the first love that ...
Read morePascha in Antioch
His Beatitude Youhanna Yazigi, Patriarch of Antioch, concluded his visitation to the city of Antioch, Alexandretta and Mersin. I am not chronicling the visitation, but listening to the hymns of the Paschal Liturgy celebrated by His Beatitude and the delegation accompanying him on the ruins of the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in ...
Read morePelikan’s Gift
Professor Jaroslav Pelikan’s statement drew my attention: “If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen, nothing else matters”. I loved to know more about him who said it. My reading revealed to me that he was a Lutheran pastor who converted with his wife to Orthodoxy in 1998, that is, ...
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Christ is risen! This Pascha is my victory at all times. Death is lurking around every time. It is death or the possibility of death. In this life, I have no salvation from death except in Jesus alone. How do I receive Him as Living and Life-Giving? This is the question of the feast; rather ...
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