Category: Articles
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The Failure of the Churches
The Patriarch of thrice-blessed memory, Ignatius Hazim, says: “The unity of the Church is not that the Catholic become Orthodox; this is a figment of the imagination. We must reform our thinking. The Catholics will not become Orthodox, and the Orthodox will not become Catholics. People do not return to situations that have their justifications.
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Administrative Heresy
This term is strange to the ear of the believer, for he is accustomed to hearing about heresy in its intellectual form. But that heresy should be administrative requires reflection and a reading that embodies doctrines behaviorally. Doctrines are not purely intellectual terms that do not touch human reality. For what benefit does a person…
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Rituals and Magic
In the chaos of concepts and ideas, thoughts revolve around rituals, so some believe that rituals are religious only, and in particular that the Orthodox and Catholic Churches are ritualistic, while the Evangelical denominations are freed from them. The second matter is that some see rituals as the summoning of divine powers in a magical…
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“The Lost Unity”
Years pass, and every year the Week of Prayer for the unity of Christianity and the churches is held; but what unity do we hope for? The Patriarch of thrice-blessed memory, Ignatius Hazim, says: ”The unity of the Church is not that the Catholic become Orthodox; this is a figment of the imagination. We must…
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“The Overflow of Light and Religious Discourse”
Every year, on the blessed Great Sabbath, light overflows from the holy tomb (the tomb of the Giver of Life). This event raises many questions, especially when the discourse turns to the notion that the resurrection is realized at the overflow of the light. Consequently two problems arise for us: the first is the emptying…
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Obedience and Freedom Are Twinned
Obedience in the Church is one of the greatest problems, because of the ease with which its concept is distorted, and it turns into obedience to some party or some leadership. For the one who is obeyed very often misuses it, so that the personality of his disciple is erased, and the son becomes attached…
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“The Declaration of Failure”
The first Sunday after Pentecost is the Sunday of All Saints, which the Church placed after the Sunday of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, because the saints are proof that Pentecost is an ongoing event in history, and that the Holy Spirit is ever active in history, as Metropolitan Paul Yazigi says (1). The…
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The Statement of the Three Patriarchs after the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
The region was lacking nothing but the disasters of nature, for the earthquake disaster is a tremendous and historic humanitarian catastrophe in Syria and Turkey, and unfortunately it is a region of recurring earthquakes, and there is no doubt that it is a dreadful tragedy for the Syrians. Dr. Tarek Mitri says “a catastrophe after…
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The Sale of the Aid for Those Affected by the Syria Earthquake of 2023
The aid designated for them began to be sold from the very first moment: food, clothing, blankets, and baby formula. Our role today, all of us, is to say: (No, we will not buy these humanitarian aid items). They were stolen from the mouths of children and women who went hungry, and families slept in…
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Crookedness of Conduct
The Sunday of Orthodoxy (the first Sunday of Lent, 4 March 2023 ), is not a day of pride in ourselves and in what we were freely given, but a day to evaluate our work by it, that is, to carry out a process of evaluation and critique of our conduct as the Orthodox community according…