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We have been studying the Book of Ecclesiastes. We have seen that it is traditionally understood as inspired by the Holy Spirit so that when King Solomon speaks he does […]

Christ Himself is also the point of continuity between the Old and New Testaments. Obviously, Christ is the subject of the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 when God says to the devil: […]

In order to read the Book of Ecclesiastes, also known as “Qohelet” with the mind of the ancient Syriac tradition, we must take the book as it presents itself, namely, as the work […]

There are some gems in the 1954 volume, Early Fathers from the Philokalia, edited and translated by Evgenia Kadloubovksy andGerald Eustace Howell Palmer. One of the jewels unique to this volume is the […]

Once more, the icon is set against a Jerusalem sky-line. As we know that Our Lord was entering Jericho when this occurred, and Jericho is much lower than Jerusalem, then […]

We continue our study of the “Our Father” in the Syriac language, which is probably as close as we will ever come to the very words Our Lord used. We […]

The icon of this week depicts the paralytic in the Gospel of St John, but – in good Maronite fashion – the Gospel reading and the liturgy are based on […]

We have discussed the first word of the “Our Father”: in Syriac, Aboun.We saw that this has the clear implication that we are children of a common Father, and that […]

What can we make of the father of the brō ōsuTō, “the glutton son, the prodigal son,” etymologically – the unsaved son (see my earlier post https://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/03/18/sunday-of-the-prodigal-son/)? I would say that if the […]