Published in the Nov–Dec 2025 issue, this article by Dn. Paul Najeeb Haddad invites clergy and faithful to recover the apostolic voice heard in the Divine Liturgy. August 11, 2025, each divine liturgy, after the Trisagion hymn subsides and the deacon intones, “Let us attend,” the Church places in our hearing the living voice of[…]
August 4, 2026, The American crisis is deeper than politics. It is deeper than economics, education, technology, or the decline of public morality. These are real problems, but they are symptoms of something more fundamental. America has lost a shared understanding of what a human person is, what freedom is for, and how truth[…]
August 7, 2026, do not devour the poor. When the weak are despised by the elite, the rich, the educated, and groan for justice, stand with them. Take your complaint to God. That’s a continuous theme in Sacred Scriptures. The Bible speaks for the powerless, because few do. The poor are too beaten down, often[…]
August 3, 2026, “One day, St. Cosmas pondered on the words of the Lord Christ—when He, in the Garden of Gethsemane, asked His disciples if any of them had a sword, and when His disciples said to Him: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And He said to them, it is enough (Luke 22:38).[…]
August 5, 2026, rise up, my beloved brothers and sisters. Rise up from the dust. Let us not forget that Christ Himself has personally chosen us to work for Him in His vineyard: The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard (Matthew[…]
