Table of Contents

Table of Contents

All sermons, articles and studies organized by category.

Arab Christian Heritage

• The Identity of Egypt (A Research Paper Submitted for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
• Saint John Climacus (A Research Paper Presented for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
• A Model of the Arabic Heritage among the Copts: The Family of Awlad al-Assal (A Research Paper Submitted for the Diploma in Christian Arabic Heritage)
• Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa‘ (a research paper submitted for the Diploma in the Arabic Christian Heritage)
• The Correct Meaning of the Gospel of Christ (a research paper submitted for the Diploma in the Arabic Christian Heritage)
• The Syriac Cultural Centers in the Ancient East (A Research Paper for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage).
• The Coptic Language and the Egyptian Colloquial (a research paper submitted for the Diploma in the Arabic Christian Heritage)
• The Shared Heritage of the Egyptians (A Research Paper Submitted for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
• Qusta ibn Luqa of Baalbek (a research paper presented for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
• Job in the Poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (A Research Paper Submitted for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
• Jesus / ‘Isa the Christ
• The Term “Nasara” (Nazarenes/Christians)

Articles

•          The Theology of Ugliness (and Evangelizing with It)

Art

• Between Kadim Al-Sahir’s Lament and the Apostle Paul’s Vision: Where Does Creativity Go?

Christian Literature

• Prayer
• Prayer

Christian-Christian Dialogue

• The Failure of the Churches
• “The Lost Unity”
• The Enemy Brothers (Week of Prayer for Unity) — Part One
• The Enemy Brothers (The Desired Unity), Part Two
• The Enemy Brothers (Week of Prayer for Christian Unity), Part Three

Churches

• The Priesthood of Women: Does the Church Have the Right to Change Canonically and Theologically?

Agreements

• Boasting in Ignorance

The Ecclesiastical Institution

• “The Acceptable Year of the Lord / 2024”

Church Administration

• A Message to the Church Leaderships
• Administrative Heresy
• “The Declaration of Failure”
• A Comment on the Defrocking of the Metropolitan of Homs
• Administrative Heresy

Despotism

• Despotism in the Ecclesiastical Institution
• Obedience and Disguised Servitude
• Metropolitan Hilarion and Questions Concerning Church Administration

Legal Violations

• Crookedness of Conduct
• On the Occasion of the New Case (the Diocese of Sweden):
• Defrocking Outside the Sanctuary
• The Nomination of a Metropolitan: Divorce.

Tradition

• Critique of Ecclesiastical Tradition and the Sacred Inheritance

Customs and Traditions

• Great and Holy Friday, or the Sad Friday
• A Study of the Custom of Kissing the Cleric’s Hand, and the Origin of the Title ‘Sayyidna’

Destiny and Existence

• Between Kadim Al-Sahir’s Lament and the Apostle Paul’s Vision: Where Does Creativity Go?
• The Disaster Between God and Authority

Ethics

• The Syrians: A Burnt Offering upon the Pulpit of Christ.
•          The Theology of Ugliness (and Evangelizing with It)
• What Was Written
• Obedience and Freedom Are Twinned
• The Statement of the Three Patriarchs after the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
• The Sale of the Aid for Those Affected by the Syria Earthquake of 2023
• The Scourge of God
• The Sunday of Witness and Revolution (the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, the third Sunday of the Fast)
• The Troublesome Baptist
• The End Does Not Justify the Means (People of the Way)
• Criticism and Infallibility in the Church
• Defrocking Outside the Sanctuary
• Obedience and Disguised Servitude
• The Pope and the Orthodox World
• The Pope’s Apology: Repentance from Infallibility

Sins of the Orthodox

• Holy Ignorance
• No Compassion for the Heretics?
• The New Heresy
• Constantinople and Byzantine Glories
• The Tragedy of the Byzantines

Liturgical Rites

• Rituals and Magic

Pascha

The Holy Fire

• “The Overflow of Light and Religious Discourse”
• The Holy Light and Populist Faith
• Boasting in Ignorance

Unity of the Feast

• Determining the Date of Pascha Is Not a Matter of Doctrine

Politics

• Liberating All of It Is Not Possible
• Why Did God Allow the Killing of the Children of Bethlehem?
• The Transfiguration of the Revolution (The Revolution of Awareness in Lebanon)
• The Earthquake: Between God and Authority

Political Ethics

• The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory 2 (The Model of Christ)
• The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory — “When Right Possesses No Self-Sufficient Power to Prevail”
• The Syrians: A Burnt Offering upon the Pulpit of Christ.
• Liberating All of It Is Not Possible

Readings on Decisions

• Not by Onions Does Man Live

Sectarianism

• The Scourge of God

Artificial Intelligence

• Has Man Come to an End in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Dialogue

Christian-Muslim Dialogue

• Criticism and Awareness
•  The Candid Reckoning That Must Be

Faces of Light

• “Behold, Everything Has Passed Away”
• My two elderly grandparents have fallen asleep, my friend.

Jesus Studies

• His Name Is Jesus
• The Trial of God

Meditations

• The Feast of the Cross

The Cross

• The Feast of the Cross

Notes on History

• A Note on the Role of Christians, Published Three Months Before the Fall of the Syrian Regime

Priesthood

Women and the Priesthood

• The Ecclesiastical Institution and the Exclusion of Woman from Service
• The Impurity of Woman as a Justification for Exclusion
• The Priesthood of Women: Does the Church Have the Right to Change Canonically and Theologically?

Psalms of Lazarus

• I Love You, O Lord
• You Have Deceived Me, O Lord
• My God, my God, why have You let me down!
• Come, O Jesus
• Lift, O Lord, Your Burden from Me

Research

Saturday Articles

Technology

Sermons

• The Encounter of Salvation and the Conflict of Wills
• The Sunday of the Blind Man
• The Sermon of the Sunday of the Paralytic

Anniversary of the Church’s Founding in Adminton

• The God of Impossibilities in Edmonton, on the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of the Church of Saint Philip the Apostle

Funeral Service

• Grant Me the Beloved Homeland

Great Lent

Gospels of the Sundays of Lent

Sunday of Orthodoxy

• The Sunday of Orthodoxy 2026

Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

• The Sunday of Saint Gregory 2026

Sunday of St. John Climacus

• John Climacus and Dostoevsky (The Fourth Sunday of the Fast, the Sunday of John Climacus)

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

• Divine Love

Sunday of the Last Judgment

• The Station of Judgment, the Station of the Stance

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

• Forgiveness Sunday: The Station of Reconciliation with Self and the Other

Pascha Sunday

• The Resurrection Is Our Passage to the Father

The Akathist

• “Beseech That Your Servants Be Written in the Book of Life”
• Immortality

Great Pascha

Sunday of the Blind Man

• The Sunday of the Blind Man

Sunday of the Paralytic

• The Sermon of the Sunday of the Paralytic

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

• The Encounter of Salvation and the Conflict of Wills

Ministry

• Service

Parables

• The Parable of Those Invited to the Wedding Feast 2026

The Unjust Servant

• The Wicked Servant

The Wedding Feast Guests

• The Parable of Those Invited to the Wedding Feast 2026

Pentecost Sunday

• The Sunday of Pentecost

Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross

• Your Cross Is Not a Fate: How Did We Turn the Cross into a Tragedy?

The Crowns

• Homily of the Holy Crowning: From a Moment in Time to the Eternity of Love

The Rich Young Man

• The Rich Man and the Commandment

Stations of Divine Love

• Introduction
• The Second Phase: A Period Not for Repentance
• The Sunday of Forgiveness: The Station of Reconciliation with the Self and the Other:
• The Third Station: The Station of Judgment, the Station of Stance:
• The Second Station: The Station of the Prodigal Son
• The First Station: The Station of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Syrian Revolution

• Statement of Father Lazarus Abboud
• Statement by Father Lazarus Abboud Blessing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution

Video

• Statement of Father Lazarus Abboud

Technology

The Holy Bible

Book of Revelation

• The Book of Revelation Was Fulfilled on the Cross (the Book of the Resurrection)

Tradition

Video

• Fear of Muslims and the Repetition of Persecutions: The Necessity of Entering into a True Dialogue.
• What Protects the People from the Repetition of the Massacres Committed by the Regime
• A Reading of the Reality of Syria One Month After the Fall of the Syrian Regime
• A Message to the Church Leadership After the Fall of the Syrian Regime
• A Dialogue on the Relationship between Religion and Politics, in the Program “A Discussion That Benefits” with Reverend Nabil Habibi
• To Our Sunni Muslim People and to the People of the Revolution
• A Warning to Christians
• Who Protects Us from the Fatwas of Killing and Takfir?
• A Message to Muslims after the Bombing of the Church of the Prophet Elijah / Damascus
• The Dialogue of Religion and Politics
• The Head of the Transitional Phase and the Mufti of the Republic Must Bear Their Responsibilities
• The Choices of Christians in the New Syria