We met for about an hour and a half. I know his zeal for the life, witness and growth of the Church. We talked about many things that are all related to the Church today, to her servants, to her people and their brokenness which, in most cases, we content ourselves with seeing it and ...
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Spiritual Growth
The 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 ...
Read moreThe Ocean of Love
When you see yourself stuck in an ocean of triviality, flee from condemning people. I am not telling you to flee from them, but from the evil of condemning them. Visions carry along responsibility. If you are able to do something good to them, do not fail to do so. If you see them insisting ...
Read moreOpenness of the Great Ones
God does not always come to you from people of your own color. God is not monochromous. Calm down your qualms. Open up a little more. This turns your life into a garden like paradise. The great ones, who preceded you, lived their life always awaiting God from everywhere. You will not be orthodox if ...
Read moreThe Comparison Complex
“Do not compare yourself with anyone”, is the fortieth of the fifty-five maxims of Father Thomas Hopko. I chose it for today’s lines, as a sample of his maxims, for a variety of reasons, among which is that it makes us feel that it is both private and public, that is, it will benefit you ...
Read moreThe Ecclesial Commitment
It is all beauty. In its details, it is heaven on earth; in thought; in art; in meaning; in the love that is manifested in it; and in this awareness that exhorts the heart to abstain from the world as it yearns for a kingdom to come… Who would say to the brethren, who neglect ...
Read moreIntegrity in Life
If the voices that were born to object to the wrong, to the wrong of the great before that of the little, to individualism and egoism, and to all that is stupid…, if these voices were asleep, then you should fear for everything that has meaning in this life, fear for everything that you care ...
Read moreA Path to the Best
There is nothing more difficult than honesty when it urges us to reform ourselves. It is of the ingenuity of the traditional Churches that they practice the sacrament of repentance and confession. I say to my friends that “if we tell the priest our confessor about a sin we have committed, we accept him if ...
Read moreA Better Day
I had told you, before, about the culture of the beautiful girls May, Mira, and Marianne Mitri. The older two gifted me with three novels. I was tardy in “unwrapping the gift” for a purpose I adopt in reading. I will tell you. In my house I have a bookcase in which I put the ...
Read moreA Fasting Day
I heard him say to some of our friends at a gathering that brought them together: “Fasting is a phase. Those who are conscious among us do not let it pass without scooping up what it gives us out of its bounty”. These words prompted me to think about what fasting bestows each day. I ...
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