Who was St Maroun (St Maron)? St Maroun is an enigma. He is important in Christian history: no other Catholic rite is exclusively named after one person, yet little is known […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
Stephen C. Meyer on Ben Shapiro’s Sunday Special
I was impressed by Ben Shapiro’s interview of Stephen C. Meyers on his Sunday Special. I have never read Meyers, although two of Stephen Meyer’s books (Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s […]
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On the Canonisation of John Henry Newman
At every Maronite Mass I have celebrated, I add the names of St John and (Blessed) John Henry Newman, after that of St Maroun in the remembrance of the saints. […]
Read moreIrreducibly Individual
I wonder if we do not all have this as part of our history: a feeling that we are inadequate? That we would have been better as someone else? That, […]
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Meister Eckhart and the Ways
Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1328) said that “Whoever is seeking God by ways is finding ways and losing God, who in ways is hidden. But whoever seeks for God without ways will […]
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What Did Jesus Look Like?
This interesting hardcover book won’t tell you what the Lord looked like, but it will tell you five things about his appearance: (1) what he most probably wore; (2) what […]
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The Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation (“the Apocalypse”) is itself so astounding, almost miraculous a book, that one could fairly evoke it as a itself confirming us in the rationality of our […]
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“John Who Saw”
There is a little-known, but very interesting book called John Who Saw by the English lawyer Adrian Howell North Green-Armytage (who must be deceased by now). It is admittedly a layman’s […]
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J.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part II)
Chapter VII of Newman’s Rise and Progress of Universities is titled “Athenian Schools: Influence.” This entire post is devoted to it, because Newman makes the invaluable point that we need virtue […]
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Nina Simone: “God, God, God”
Nina Simone (1933-2003) was not an ordinary person. She was not. I wish I had time to do justice to her achievement, but she was talented to an extraordinary degree. […]
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