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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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
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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Propers of the Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Introit Adore God, all His Angels: Sion heard, and was glad: and the daughters of Judah rejoiced. The Lord has reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. […]
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Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Introit “Let all the earth adore You, O God, and sing to You: let it sing a psalm to Your Name, O Most High. Psalm. Shout with joy to God, […]
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St Anthony the Great (17 January)
St Anthony the Great is believed to have lived for 105 years, from 251 to 356, dying on 17 January, the day when we celebrate his feast. He was born […]
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The Genesis of the American Jesus
Further to my favourable review of Stephen Prothero’s American Jesus, it might be useful to consider how the “American Jesus” came to be. The idea of the Lord as a […]
Read moreThe Feast of the Holy Family (Propers)
The Feast of the Holy Family Introit (Proverbs 23:24-25) The father of the just rejoices greatly, let your father and mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore you. […]
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The Chalk Blessing (The Epiphany)
The Feast of the Epiphany (6 January) Inscribing a Blessing with Chalk upon your Houses “We invite you to adopt this custom in your family. The family gathers to ask […]
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The Epiphany
The Feast of the Epiphany falls on 6 January, and inaugurates a Season which runs until the three weeks of commemoration of the departed, the immediate prelude to Lent. The […]
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“American Jesus,” A Book Review
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, Stephen Prothero; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2003 (364 pp., including index) In one of several enlightening passages, […]
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