شارك
I was recently struck by a passage in an article by an Orthodox writer from the Russian Church (whose name escapes me at the moment). Speaking of the Dormition Fast, he wrote that we prepare for the Feast – the Feast of the Theotokos’s Dormition – by intensifying our love for the Virgin Mary. Now, this ...
Read moreTo believe that the Virgin Mary is "the mother of Jesus" is the foundation of our faith that she is our mother as well. "Behold your mother", Jesus said to His beloved disciple (John 19:27). Notice the movement of the utterance. It is Jesus Who presents Mary as a mother to His disciple, or to ...
Read moreWhat does it mean to have a monastery on earth? This is a question that seized me after Brother Zaher Semaan invited me to meet with some brethren from the Movement at the “Monastery of Virgin Mary the Consolatory”, which I mentioned yesterday. It was not the first time I have heard about this monastery ...
Read moreThere are two in the world about whom it was said that they are wider than the heavens, the Virgin Mary, the Mother who was capable of holding in her womb the Word Who is un-circumscribable, and those who have learned that “he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Let us not say ...
Read moreIt is of the eloquence of the Church to insist, on more than one occasion, to elevate our humanity. Take, for instance, the feasts that extend for us the salvation of Christ the Lord. The Church celebrates the feast. Then, the next day, She calls us to celebrate the second character in it. Today, Mary ...
Read moreThroughout its generations, humankind has known different criteria, all of which aim at seeking to know who the other human being really is. For example, there are philosophers who have set, as a criterion, knowledge of the books he reads and their types. The wise men also spoke of the criterion of friendship. “Evil company ...
Read moreMary! Beauty was spoken about until you came, then it was revealed. Whatever words were produced by people’s thoughts about you, those same words express their failure in describing your eternal youth. The renewing tale is an uprising against the weakness of thoughts, against the senescence of language and the powerlessness of history, it is ...
Read more