PART ONE: The “OUR FATHER,” Syriac transliteration and literal English translation Aboun d.baš.ma.yo Our Father, who (is) in heaven net.qa.daš šmokh Let it be hallowed, Thy name tee.te mal.kou.tokh Let […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Introit (Daniel 3: 31, 29, 35) All that Thou hast done to us, O Lord, Thou hast done in true judgment: because we have sinned against […]
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The Rosary: Intention, Attention, and Retention
Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters (Part III)
This is the third part of my review of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of his Converts, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1915. […]
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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Introit (Daniel 39: 31, 25) I am the salvation of the people, says the Lord: in whatever tribulation they shall cry to Me, I will hear […]
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Signs of the Incarnation in Nature
So far, we have noted how the Syriac tradition takes seriously the Nativity of the Lord as the fulfilment of the prophecies recorded in the Old Testament; and the importance […]
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Mons R.H. Benson, “Spiritual Letters” (Part II)
We are continuing our reading of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of his Converts. We are considering the Anglican Letters. We have […]
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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Introit Give peace, O Lord, to them that patiently wait for Thee, that Thy prophets may be found faithful: hear the prayers of Thy servant, and […]
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The Glory of God at Christmas
Last week we briefly looked at how the Syriac tradition values and dwells upon how the Nativity of the Lord fulfilled the prophecies recorded in the Old Testament. We meditated […]
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Mons. R.H. Benson, “Spiritual Letters” (Part I)
Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was, in my view, one of the best writers of the 20th century. In fact, he is my favourite Catholic writer, of fiction until J.R.R. […]
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