We have reached the end. You do know that this day, Holy Saturday, is, historically, a favorable day for the baptism of new believers. Why does the beginning (baptism) take place at the end? Today’s event, that is, the theme of today’s feast (Descent into Hades), reveals that baptism is a communion with Christ’s death ...
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Blessed is He Who Comes
We drew closer to Pascha. Pascha has been with us since the beginning of Lent. Its scent adhered to everything, to what it requires, to its prayers, to its topics, to the brethren’s faces, to the saints who were implanted in it. We do not believe that we, on our own, are capable of achieving ...
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I am not a liturgist. However, my conviction is firm that the Great Lent, in its laid down structure, reveals that Pascha, which is the destination of Lent, overshadows all the days of fasting. One of the brethren asked me a few days ago: “the selected Gospels for Sundays during the Great Lent are all ...
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Welcome to our home, Naï. Welcome, O pretty one who has followed her two siblings in getting born. Life did not allow us to rejoice in welcoming you in the faraway country. I am welcoming you from afar. I am writing these lines for you. I hope, when you read them, that you will say ...
Read moreYou Are Mine
Lord, every time I hear You knocking on my door, I understand that a distance still exists between You and me! Why do You not demolish the distances between us? I am not asking that You privilege me from anyone, but that You see me as Your own. I believe in You. I am waiting ...
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Of the ecclesiastical feasts which we wrong ourselves by neglecting, as they had been neglected by those who participated in organizing holidays in our country, is the feast of the Lord's Ascension into Heaven. The thing, which many Christians miss, is that this feast, the feast of the Divine Ascension, is another aspect of Pascha. ...
Read moreThe Disciples of Emmaus
This is the greatest story of Pascha in the Gospel of Luke (24:13-35). We know one of the two disciples, Cleopas. The other disciple is likely to have been the Evangelist Luke himself. The story begins on the road. Two disciples returning from Jerusalem to a faraway village were having a conversation about their disappointment. ...
Read moreThe Story of the Two Bishops
The commemoration of Christ’s passion and resurrection has eclipsed the memory of the kidnapping of Archbishops Boulos Yazigi, and Youhanna Ibrahim. Is there anything sweeter than being deemed worthy of getting eclipsed by the victory of the living Christ? I am not sugarcoating the crime of kidnapping, any kidnapping, its injustice and insanity. I am ...
Read moreWe Believe and Bear Witness
The highest revelation of the Truth of Pascha is the news of the empty tomb. What Paul said about the many appearances, that is, Jesus showing Himself alive to the apostles and to more than five hundred brethren (1 Corinthians 15:5-8), then what the Gospels said, follows the reality of the tomb from which Jesus ...
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From Pascha to Pascha The forty-day Holy Lent is our path to a new life given forth by Pascha. I know many brethren, who practice fasting with ecclesiastical attention, and when it ends, they feel great distress. How is this distress to be treated? How can it not turn, in us, into (our) remaining fixed ...
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