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The icon of St Mary of Egypt with this post was written by a friend of mine: B(T)S. I have previously mentioned Blosian meditation twice, in connection with Monsignor Robert […]

In their Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies (Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 2022) Alexopoulos and Johnson define “rite” as follows: A rite is a unique and integrated system of worship with its own rules […]

I have already mentioned in the two “Altars and Alterations” posts that Patriarch Dwayhi (also spelt Doueihy and many variants) said that in his day (he died in 1704), the […]

Part One In about 2011, HarperCollins published Norris J. Chumley’s Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It is not an uninteresting book, as a travelogue, but its value for me lies […]

In the two access prayers of the Maronite Divine liturgy, the priest chants “Salaw 3alay, metool moran,” and crosses his hands over his breast, bows to the left and then […]

I write on 17 May in the Year of Grace, 2022, from Marazion, Cornwall, within sight of the former Benedictine monastery of Mount St Michael. To keep this short, it is a […]

There is no mucking around with the Maronite icon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. The father of the parable is unequivocally shown as Our Lord Jesus Christ in […]

Sunday of the Faithful Departed Fr Badwi says of this icon: “The eschatological world and the last day are open for the traveller passing from our world to the true […]