وكونوا… مُتسامحين كما سامحكم الله أيضاً في المسيح (أف 4: 32) احملوا بعضكم أثقال بعض، وهكذا تمِّموا ناموس المسيح (غل 6: 2) يمثِّل مبدأ التسامح موقفاً مركزياً في التعليم المسيحي. ومع هذا فهو موضع عدم الرضا من كثير من المنتسبين للمسيح الذين يرون في التسامح...
Recently I found some old pictures of myself from my younger days – my pre-priesthood/pre-marriage days. Nothing is more fun than looking through those old pictures (especially with your kids who think the world wasn’t created until they came into being) and...
Ever feel like you’re drowning? Like it’s just too much? Like the world around you is a raging sea and you just keep getting tossed from one wave to another? Always unsettled? Always on the run? Always late for something or behind on something? Always overwhelmed? If...
The events of the Pascha Week are charged with the emotions of the ultimate love of God to us. It is also filled with the Lord’s broken heart and sad soul, sad to death. These infinite feelings of love of our Lord toward man are beyond the limits of expression. That...
Pre-lent Sunday On Pre lent Sunday, we start to prepare ourselves for fasting and glorifying God. We need to shoe God that we are fasting for him, and not anybody else, as is said in Matthew 6:1-4. We are not trying to show off to the whole world that we are fasting...
من خلال أربع عِبارات عميقة قالها هذا القديس الجليل، وسجّلها لنا الرسول يوحنا الحبيب في إنجيله (يو3)، يمكننا أن نعرف بعض أسرار قوّة خدمة أعظم الأنبياء، والذي هيَّأ الطريق أمام السيد المسيح، القدّيس يوحنّا المعمدان. العبارات الأربعة الجميلة، هي: 1- "لا يقدر إنسان أن...