A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Queen Anne Press, 1953 (reprinted with additions, Penguin, 1982) This is Fermor’s account of his visit to two monasteries, and one burial […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
The Mystery of Lent
God called us into being. He spoke, and we were. God is life. God is the fullness of life. He is perfect life; complete, endless, and good, He shares His […]
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Sexagesima Sunday
Introit Arise, why do you sleep, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. Why do you turn your face away, and forget our trouble? Our belly […]
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Cana Sunday
Cana Sunday is the entrance to Lent, but the first day of Lent is Ash Monday. It commemorates the first sign performed by the Lord, as passed on by St John: On […]
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Fairbairn, The Typology of Scripture
In 1845, Patrick Fairbairn, Professor of Divinity at the Free Church College, Glasgow, published a massive two-volume work, The Typology of Scripture Viewed in Connection with the Whole Series of […]
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Jacob of Sarug on the Creation of Adam
Jacob of Sarug on The Creation of Adam and the Resurrection of the Dead, trans. and introduced, Edward G. Mathews Jr. Gorgias Press This memra by St Jacob of Sarug […]
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Septuagesima Sunday
Septuagesima Sunday Introit The sorrows of death surrounded me, the sorrows of hell encompassed me: and in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and He heard my voice from […]
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Sunday of the Righteous and Just
Once more, I am profoundly impressed by how much detail, and how much thought has gone into this icon. Fr Badwi states of it: “The Righteous and the Just are […]
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Praying the Divine Office
The Value of Praying the Divine Office From time to time people ask me about some form of prayer in difficult circumstances: they sometimes want a sort of “super prayer.” […]
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The Sunday of Deceased Priests
The Three Weeks of Commemoration On this Sunday we commemorate our Deceased Priests. On each day of the week, we celebrate this liturgy, and continue our remembrance. After that, we […]
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