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From "I" to "We"
Marriage, in its essence, is a voluntary death of a part of the self-centredness within us — not the death of the personality, but...
5 min read →When the Father Ran
I left home, because I thought life began far from You. But I never reckoned that You would run.
2 min read →Modesty and Chastity
Modesty is not merely a matter of dress or outward appearance; it is the expression of an inner disposition that reflects the beli...
4 min read →Between the Joy of the Feast and the Loss of Meaning
Some feasts have come closer to noisy festivals than to ecclesial celebrations. Is the joy we see truly of the evangelical kind?
6 min read →In the Presence of Pain and Death
Christ did not come to exempt us from pain, but to be with us in it, to carry it with us — indeed, to carry it before us.
4 min read →How Do We Refine the Ego and Reach Inner Peace?
The more the ego swells, the greater the turmoil; the more it is refined, the more the heart opens to peace. When the "I" is no lo...
5 min read →"Render to Caesar the Things That Are Caesar's, and to God the Things That Are God's"
The believer must be a disquiet to rulers, or he is no believer. For the believer is that revolution which keeps revolutions from...
5 min read →Orthodox Christian Ethics
The ethics of the Orthodox believer are the ethics of the human being called to deification. In effect, Christian ethics are the t...
6 min read →"A Personal Testimony"
George Khodr did not teach me how to be a "Christian"; he taught me how to be a human being. He revealed to me that the encounter...
4 min read →Tony Khoury
Poor toward his Lord and rich in his Lord. And from his poverty for God he enriched many. This is Tony Khoury.
2 min read →The Mad Ones of Love
Yes, love is madness. And the Cross is madness. And yet there is no rationality in the world but this madness. And we are mad with...
2 min read →Raymond Rizk
This lover is one of the elders of the Youth Movement, and a great young man. An inspiration, a brother, and a father in Christ to...
2 min read →Heaven and Earth Embrace
This picture is a living witness that our holiness is made neither by geography nor by language. The heart aflame with the love of...
2 min read →What Is Your Story, O Damascus?
O Damascus, teach us how to love unto blood, how to forgive even betrayal, and how to rise with the Crucified.
2 min read →Metropolitan Boulos Bandaly: An Icon in Our Hearts
He departed. Yes, he departed, but he did not vanish. Metropolitan Boulos Bandaly did not write volumes, but he wrote upon hearts.
3 min read →A Prayer at the Start of the Fast
In the fast we do not mutter a prayer. In the fast we become a prayer.
2 min read →A Pharisee-and-Publican Heart
In me is a Pharisee who knows the words and masters the standing; and in me is a publican who stands afar off, beats his breast, a...
2 min read →The Transfiguration of the Lord
The Transfiguration is not a passing moment. The Transfiguration is a present invitation. We too are called to ascend with You to...
2 min read →Zacchaeus the Publican
Zacchaeus discovered that Jesus did not look upon him as others saw him, but as he could be, and thus restored to him his lost hum...
3 min read →Three Luminaries
Three luminaries lit the sky of the faith: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.
2 min read →"Come and Dwell in Us"
Who are You, O Dweller in my depths, O whisper that cannot be spoken, O fire that cannot be quenched!
2 min read →In the Embrace of the Virgin
August has come, bearing at its start the Fast of the Virgin. Fifteen days, like blossoms we offer to the Virgin Mary, the lily of...
2 min read →Make My Life a Prayer That Walks Upon the Earth
Teach me to be a prayer that walks. Teach me how my work may be a hymn, my word a blessing, and my glance a mercy that embraces ev...
2 min read →Who Are You, O Crucified One?
Your throne is not of gold, but of wood carved with pain; and Your crown is not of pearls, but of thorns thrust into Your pure bro...
2 min read →"Behold, the Bridegroom Comes"
Behold, the Bridegroom comes like the beloved returning after long absence, carrying His heart in His hands and whispering: "I hav...
2 min read →Who Am I?
If I am not, in You, my Lord, then who am I? And what does it mean for me to be?
2 min read →The Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos
It is not said of you that you "were absent," for the absent is one who hides from hearts; and you, O full of grace, your radiance...
2 min read →The Fast
We fast, and eat nothing but Your presence; we hunger, and desire nothing but Your word.
2 min read →Taking the Side of Holiness
Yet the honouring of the saints is not by taking their side, but by taking the side of holiness itself.
2 min read →"Out of the Mouths of Infants and Nurslings You Have Prepared Praise"
A blessed Palm Sunday.
1 min read →A Look at the Book "When Earth Touches Heaven"
A look at the book "When Earth Touches Heaven: The Divine Liturgy, a Vision and a Story," by Fr. Dr. Rami Wannous, with a special...
1 min read →"I Came to Serve": Prophecy and the Prophets
In its final episode of the season, the programme "I Came to Serve" takes up the theme of prophecy and the prophets, hosting Fr. I...
1 min read →"I Came to Serve": The Journey of the Holy Great Fast
A reading and illumination of the journey of the Holy Great Fast, from the pre-Lenten Sundays to the Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt...
1 min read →"And on Earth Peace": A Nativity Trilogy
A Nativity trilogy broadcast on Télé Lumière and Noursat, produced and presented by Fr. Elias Karam.
1 min read →The Audio Recordings on YouTube
All the audio recordings are published on YouTube in a playlist under the name of Fr. Rami Wannous.
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