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“This day makes glad, my Lord, kings, priests, and prophets; for upon this day all of their sayings were fulfilled in action.” (Hymn on the Nativity, 1.1) With this verse, […]

We celebrate the Feast of St John the Beloved twice each year, on 8 May and on 26 September. It is right to have two feasts, for he was both […]

Blessed Estphan (also spelled “Estephan”) Nehme 30 August Blessed Estphan was born as Youssef Nehme in Lehfed, on 8 March 1889 a village in the Byblos area of Lebanon. The […]

 St Isaac the Syrian: Wonder and Amazement The Feast of St Isaac the Syrian is celebrated by the Maronite church on 23 August. He was born in modern-day Qatar, possibly […]

(Icon: Our Lord receives the soul of His Blessed Mother, shown as an infant in swaddling clothes) Why do we celebrate each year, on 15 August, the Feast of the […]

“Pentecost” is the name of both a feast and a season of the liturgical calendar. As a feast, it is the second Sunday after the Ascension, itself forty days after […]

The Glorious TRANSFIGURATION: 6 August “After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There […]

God the Father Almighty is All-good, All-knowing, and All-loving. He is infinitely more powerful than the devil, and if we stand with God in actual fact and not only in […]

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 […]