I do not believe that there is a word used in the history of people to defend a beloved brother surrounded by shameless accusations or condemned by his church for committing a heinous crime, crowding out the word of Jesus: “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first” ...
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Repentance
The Meaning of Life
In the period preceding the feasts of Theophany, the Church engaged us in the beauty of celebrating the feasts of several apostles and prophets. Following the leave-taking of the feast, it plants for us, in our present days, other feasts for the saintly Fathers, that is, for many of them, namely the righteous fathers, the ...
Read moreTo Meet the Lord
Do not follow those who say that when Man dies, he takes his secrets with him. Man takes nothing with him from his secrets except those that he did not confess to here, that is, those that he did not repent of. Are there things that you are ashamed to carry with you to meet ...
Read moreA Helpful Repentance
No phrase is more cunning than “the two-state solution” that was proposed by the Security Council for the Arab-Israeli conflict following the 1967 war. Israel is not a state, but rather an agglomeration that was founded on usurpation and murder. It usurped land that was not its own, and since settling in it, it has ...
Read moreLaunch Out into the Deep
Yesterday, and the day before, I had the opportunity to participate in a part of an internal conference held by the Mount Lebanon chapter of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). Palestine was present, with its wounds and our hopes for it, first in the homily given by Metropolitan Silouan Moussi, during the Vespers prayer that ...
Read moreThe Culture of Reform
What most people like is for you to praise them. If you have a beneficial word, do not expect it to be always accepted, if you said it. Those who accept the word are those who believe that God constantly addresses us in order to be better, that is, to be His and in His ...
Read moreDaring to Confess
An acquaintance of mine paid me a visit, and asked me to moderate his meeting with a mutual friend whom I know that he, that is my visitor, had wronged. I thanked him for his trust. However, I asked him that our meeting be imbued with frankness. He said: "It is not necessary for us ...
Read moreA Beloved Disciple
Some time ago, I visited Metropolitan George Khodr at his home. I repeated before him the Lord’s words kept by John the Evangelist about the beloved disciple: “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?”. Among us, Metropolitan George seems to be, in more than one way, another image ...
Read moreBefore Jesus
Today, I will go with you to the story of the adulterous woman whom the Scribes and Pharisees presented to Jesus, and asked Him what He would say about her (John 8:3-11). Many of us, reading the story, would stop at Jesus' response: “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone ...
Read moreThe Mind of God
When Jesus said to Peter: “you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men” (Matthew 16:23), He wanted him to abide by Him in what He is mindful of. How does Man think like God? This is a question whose answer requires that we return quickly to the context of ...
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