In the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul, with his saving ingenuity, pairs freedom with the service of love (5:13). Talking about freedom can, in no way, be established on the ruins of this pairing. You know the verse in Galatians. Nevertheless, I will remind you of it: “do not use liberty as an opportunity for ...
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The Miracle of Reform
From the enlightened people’s legacy, we do not know anyone who deemed it easy to reform an arrogant brother. I am not saying that reform is impossible. In our heritage, there is no flaw, no matter how hideous, that is impossible to reform, except for that on which we insist. Reform is a miracle which, ...
Read moreA Reconciliation Duty
If we really think that ignorance is a flaw, we all have to reconcile that everything that brings this world forward concerns us, one by one. Nothing can be reformed without this reconciliation.
Read moreWho Am I?
The error does not always come to us through wrong doors. There are errors to which we enter through legitimate doors. I will give you an example. Most people, nowadays, set their goals in life before they really know themselves or what God has created them for. Who am I? This is a question that ...
Read moreServing Righteousness
If you crucify people for sins that they had actually committed or that you assume they had done, expect that you will face one of two dangers: that you will do injustice to those you crucified, or that your ability to notice your personal mistakes will be diminished. If you have room for a piece ...
Read moreA Night for the Good
Do you consider this night to be different? Difference in life is responding to grace and its actions. I have a suggestion of which I hope, if you see fit, that you take, tonight, what agrees with you. This world is full of difficulties and wounds. To turn it into spaces for what is good, ...
Read moreAdvanced Culture
There is no more advanced cultured person in the world than he whom you see listening to the truth with love and speaking out about its issues. I am not obscuring sciences and exploring faces and books, but rather I am talking about the presence of the cultured person for the sake of a better ...
Read moreThe Truly Living
Do not accept to sit on the sidelines of life, to ascend neutrality, which is competed over by the dead, as your throne! The truly living are the ones who are concerned that this worldly life be more mindful, loving and peaceful!
Read moreAdvice from My Father
“No one is considered truly successful in life except he who has been given, in it, the opportunity to learn to be patient”. This is advice from my father. Did he learn it from his father? Did he hear it from someone else? I know he has left it with me.
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 ...
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