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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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
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 on 10 July 1860 in part of a dramatic anti-Christian uprising in Syria and Lebanon from […]
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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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Formulations
Formulations play an enormous part in our lives. They are necessary: whenever we speak we use formulations: “Good morning”, “I am …”, “Would you like …”, “Can you tell me […]
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The Bride of Lammermoor
One well educated person I know considers The Bride of Lammermoor to have been Sir Walter Scott’s greatest novel. I think it is a great novel, and an underestimated one, […]
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