The Extraordinary Form of the Mass, also known as the Tridentine Mass, or “the old Latin Mass” is celebrated at each Sunday, at 4.30pm, at St Benedict’s, Arcadia, 6 Fagan’s […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
“An Introduction to the Maronite Faith”
My book An Introduction to the Maronite Faith, published by Connor Court, is available. Some Maronite churches have it in their gift shops, but with everything closing up once because […]
Read moreReview: Taylor Marshall’s “Catholic Perspective on Paul”
Taylor Marshall’s The Catholic Perspective on Paul is a rare bird indeed: it is a solid, systematic treatment of the Apostle St Paul and his letters. It is written simply and […]
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The Necromancers, Part II
Benson developed a rather simple but, I suggest, accurate view of the relationship between will and formatory thought (to use Gurdjieff’s phrase for the lower level of mind, the one […]
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R.H. Benson, “The Necromancers,” Pt I
My own view, for what it may be worth, is that most writers who dismiss Benson’s novels out of hand have simply not read them. I have already extracted some […]
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Icons: Divine Beauty, Richard Temple
This is a very good book. It is most valuable of course, for the photographic reproductions of icons, but the text is also singularly helpful. Published in 2004 by SAQI, […]
Read moreWords” “Aback,” “Heist,” “Helicopter”
I thought it might be worthwhile taking a few more words for research today. Aback, must mean something to do with the back. But exactly what? Already by 1944, the […]
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Introducing Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson (1872-1914), was a Catholic Priest. He was the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury renowned for his anti-Catholic rhetoric, and was ordained an Anglican priest by his […]
Read moreReview, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (8th and final part)
Part Six: The Church and the Scrolls “Did St Paul write anything about the Church?”, Bergsma asks in chapter 14. It begins with some notes about the assumptions modern biblical […]
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Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises
I have just read the published volume, and I think it might be worthwhile to note some thoughts which have occurred to me. I shall update this page from time […]
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