The Sydney Morning Herald’s weekend edition of 17-18 September 2016, had an article titled: “Dramatic changes needed as childhood obesity normalised” (pp. 8-9). Sadly, one in five children in NSW […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
Purgatory
One of the teachings of the Catholic faith, which we Maronites share, and which has always seemed to me to be absolutely true is the doctrine of Purgatory. I have […]
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Why I Won’t be Reading Harry Potter and the Pitiless Sequels
I won’t be reading the new Harry Potter book for one simple but sufficient reason: the silliness has long outweighed any sympathy I had for Rowling’s characters. The silliness was […]
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A Calling: Part Two
A Calling: Part Two When chapter 6 of Abbot William’s autobiography opens, it is mid-1951, and he has joined the Trappist abbey at Spencer. He writes about the spiritual path […]
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St Charbel
St Charbel, Third Sunday of July Born Youssef Makhlouf in Beqa Kafra on 8 May 1828, he was the fifth child in a family of simple farmers. When he was […]
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The Massabki Brothers
The Massabki brothers, Francis, Abdel Moati and Raphael, were Maronite martyrs, slain in Damascus in 1860 in part of a dramatic anti-Christian uprising in Syria and Lebanon from April to […]
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The Institution of the Eucharist
The journal Universitas, issued by the Jesuit-run Fu Jen University in Taiwan, has kindly published my article entitled “The Institution of the Eucharist in the Gospel of John, the Didache […]
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A Calling to the Contemplative Life (Part One)
This is the second part of my article on “The Maronite Monks of Adoration”. It is dedicated to the first part of a review of Abbot William’s valuable spiritual testimony: […]
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Dithering
Formulation and Dithering It is a beautiful, entertaining word: “dithering”; quite one of the modest glories of the English language. You could spend the afternoon in nature, on a grassy […]
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The Maronite Monks of Adoration
Part One: Visiting the Monks I recently had the great good fortune, even the privilege, of visiting the Maronite Monks of Adoration at their Monastery of the Holy Trinity. If […]
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