The Maronites in History: A Reply Part Two: A Discussion of the texts concerning St Maroun There is no figure in history quite like the elusive figure which is Mar […]
Read moreAuthor: Fr Yuhanna Azize
The Maronites in History: A Reply
Part One: The texts concerning St Maroun In Part One, I set out the two ancient texts which disclose what is known of St Maroun. In Part Two, I discuss […]
Read moreThe 350 Martyrs (Part 3): The Spiritual Message
The bottom line is that we can be satisfied that the tradition of the Maronite Church is genuine. There was a tragic slaying of more than 350 monks in 517, […]
Read moreThe 350 Martyrs (Part 2): Attacking the Historicity of the Martyrdom
The Venerable Patriarch Douaihy, the “Memory of the Maronites”, accepted the historicity of the letters and the events described. The Maronite Church has long celebrated their feast on 31 July […]
Read moreThe 350 Martyrs: Part 1
The 350 Martyrs: Part 1 (The Holy Martyrs) On 31 July each year, the Maronite Church remembers the 350 Maronite monks who were martyred in the year 517, slain by […]
Read more“One Holy Father”, Alternative Music
Here is some alternative music I wrote for the prayer “One Holy Father”, in the Maronite Divine Sacrifice of the Mass.
Read moreAnne of Geierstein or The Daughter of the Mist
Many readers do not like Anne of Geierstein (1829). Schoolchildren who were obliged to read it are said to have been turned many readers off Walter Scott’s novels altogether. I […]
Read moreJacob of Sarug and the Work
When Orage said that “Jesus Christ” used this method (Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York, 13), he was not defining or limiting Jesus: rather, he was drawing a connection between Gurdjieff’s […]
Read morePrejudices (St Ephrem)
I have spent some time enjoying the great stock of new volumes on the shelves of the much beloved Fisher Library: it is one of the great innocent delights of […]
Read moreJasper Dryfesdale (“The Abbot”)
Walter Scott’s 1820 novel, The Abbot, has fared rather better with critics than with the reading public. I am one amateur critic who also likes it, although I would not […]
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