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Month: August 2017

Sentimentality: A Disease of the Feeling

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Sentimentality is a disease. Orage said that it is “an escape of emotional gas but not through the centre for which it was intended” (Gurdjieff’s Emissary, 455). That is, the […]

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St Isaac (23 August)

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

The feast of St Isaac of Monteluco (died c. 550) is celebrated on 23 August. He is often confused with St Isaac of Nineveh (died c. 700). Both are also […]

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Amis and “A Different Christianity”

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

I recently came across a reference to Robin Amis’ book A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought, published in 1995 by the State University of New York Press. […]

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Beguilement in Nicephorus

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

In his treatise on sobriety, Nicephorus the Solitary says that the method which he will teach has the happy effect of “leading him who practises it, without labour or sweat, […]

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Nicephorus on Renouncing the World and its Illusions

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Kadloubovsky and Palmer open their selection, Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart (1951) with a text by Nicephorus the Solitary known as “On Sobriety,” or, to provide […]

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The Feast of the Shoonoyo (Assumption)

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

In the Maronite tradition, which is a Syriac tradition, we celebrate on 15 August each year, what in that language is called 3eedo shoonoyo. This is known in English as […]

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From Ouspensky to the Philokalia

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

The Philokalia is really a miniature library. The manuscripts which comprise it were originally written in Greek. Although the texts are mostly far older, the present-day collection was compiled by […]

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The Sexualisation of Culture

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

I shall be updating this piece from time to time. However, it will be a useful resource as this tragic sexualisation of culture continues. It is not that sexuality has […]

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St Shmuni and her Seven Sons

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

On 1 August, our Maronite Church celebrates the feast of St Shmuni and her seven sons. Their story is told in the Second Book of Maccabees, which I extract in […]

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