Since the Sunday following Pascha, the apostle Thomas, by saying to the Living Christ, "My Lord and my God", has charted for us the course to Pentecost. The Holy Spirit will descend upon us to guide us all, both as a community and as individuals, to recognize that Christ is our Lord and God. "No ...
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Pentecost
The Spirit is With Us
I have mentioned to you that, after Pentecost, the Church entrusts us to the care of the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no walk with God. What matters to me in these lines is for us to abide by the Words of Jesus that are read to us by the Church on these ...
Read moreThird Sunday After Pentecost
The committed brethren know that, in our Church, we refer most of the Sundays of the year to Pentecost. We say the first Sunday after Pentecost, or the third, or the twentieth... This sets before us to increase our trust in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, without Whom nothing of the mystery of the ...
Read moreFeast of All Saints
It is the feast of the active revelation that God wanted all Mankind with Him in His Kingdom. He who looks closely at the feast, especially in its ecclesial position, falling on the first Sunday after Pentecost, will notice, with no effort, that, through it, the Church intended to confirm her awareness that, while on ...
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 moreAll-Saints Sunday
It is well known that our Church, whose liturgical year begins on September 1, is dominated by Pentecost (the Church labels most of its Sundays and weeks that they fall after Pentecost). This, in and of itself, reveals that, without the Spirit of God, we cannot walk ecclesiastically in the space of worship even one ...
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