{"id":6672,"date":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/in-the-footsteps-of-christ\/blog-post\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:35:53","slug":"in-the-footsteps-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/in-the-footsteps-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOn the Footsteps of Christ\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">It is the title of a Lebanese documentary by \u201cPhilip Araktinji\u201d that was shown by a local channel on Friday, about a trip to Lebanese places that have been \u201cvisited by Christ\u201d. Has He really visited them? I believe He has visited them through the \u201cGospel of the Word\u201d. So, I am not discussing, here, the idea of the movie, the watching of which was a pleasure that has compensated me for having missed watching it in the theater two years ago. What I care for is to appreciate the effort of all those who have worked on it, one by one. Lebanon, this is a country the beauty of which needs to be revealed today, especially today. Lebanon is not a bankrupt country, consisting of empty shopping malls, a hysterical rise in prices, and which is haunted, since many years, by the refrain of the blackout threat\u2026, a country that is begging for a government\u2026 Where is the wise Lebanon, \u201cLebanon the message\u201d, the beautiful Lebanon to which \u201cthe world\u201d desires to come? The movie was a beautiful exhortation to search for the true Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the title of a Lebanese documentary by \u201cPhilip Araktinji\u201d that was shown by a local channel on Friday, about a trip to Lebanese places that have been \u201cvisited by Christ\u201d. Has He really visited them? I believe He has visited them through the \u201cGospel of the Word\u201d. So, I am not discussing, here, ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":6699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[358,360,357,359],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christ","tag-cinema","tag-lebanon","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}