James Barr (1924-2006) was a major biblical scholar. A professor at Oxford University, he belonged to the Church of Scotland, although he was quite liberal, and was something of a […]
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James Barr (1924-2006) was a major biblical scholar. A professor at Oxford University, he belonged to the Church of Scotland, although he was quite liberal, and was something of a […]
Read moreIn the icon for Easter Sunday, we see the empty tomb in the middle left. It is presented as if it were a small house, topped with a red cross, […]
Read moreWe learn more and more as we remain before the mystery of typology, the mystery of how heaven is made present on earth through the divine pattern. One element which […]
Read moreOn the night of Palm Sunday we Maronites celebrate a rite which we can call “Arriving (or Arrival) at the Port,” or “Reaching the Harbour,” or some combination of these. […]
Read moreThis Sunday is “Hosanna Sunday.” The name in Syriac comes from a verb meaning “to acclaim Hosanna!” That word then passes into Arabic as meaning not “palm,” but “palm branches.” The […]
Read moreSt John Chrysostom’s Letter to Maroun (Letter 36) St John Chrysostom (347-407), who was a priest in Antioch, and became Bishop of Constantinople, wrote a letter to a hermit named […]
Read moreWhy did St Maroun succeed in his work of sanctification and evangelisation? I have already set out what Theodoret wrote about St Maroun. http://www.fryuhanna.com/2019/04/17/introducing-st-maroun/ Let us now examine that like […]
Read moreSt Joseph, the Foster Father of the Lord, is one of the greatest saints of the entire Church. He is a model of fatherhood, of manhood, and of the virtues […]
Read moreJesus and Jonah: The Second Point of Contact (Calming the Storm) Goppelt says of the story of how Jesus calmed the storm that: “The similarity in the descriptions of the […]
Read more“A typology is a belief that objects, events, persons, and institutions exist and occur in relationship to other corresponding objects, events, persons, and institutions. For earthly things, when considered antitypes, […]
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