We all have a yearning in our hearts to be united with God. Whatever we may own or enjoy in this world, to be joined with God exceeds them all. […]
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We all have a yearning in our hearts to be united with God. Whatever we may own or enjoy in this world, to be joined with God exceeds them all. […]
Read moreTrust I would recommend you listen to this broadcast of a sermon by Fr Peter Robinson SSPX, delivered on 14 August 2022, the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. https://youtu.be/COK-FAh_Xyk?t=2542 I […]
Read moreI 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 […]
Read moreParts one, two and three of this series appear at http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/28/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-i/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/02/04/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-ii/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/02/24/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-iii/ The Maronite and traditional Latin liturgies will have to be taken separately, and then compared. Once the Anaphora […]
Read morePart one and two appear at http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/28/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-i/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/02/04/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-ii/ The Maronite rite commences the liturgy of the Eucharist with an access to the altar (l-baytokh Aloho 3elet). It is specified only that […]
Read moreSunday 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 […]
Read moreThe 500 Martyrs of Tyre We celebrate the feast of the 500 Martyrs of Tyre on 19 February each year. Why then? It falls within a period of specifically Maronite […]
Read morePart one appears at http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/28/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-i/ Last week we discovered three principles: that when the people are directly addressed, whether in the Latin or Maronite rite, the priest faces them. The second is […]
Read moreTo celebrate the Divine Liturgy ad orientem is to celebrate towards the East, with the priest and the faithful all standing before the altar. The opposite tradition is called versus […]
Read moreThis reflection on a prayer in all the Catholic and Orthodox liturgies is based on an interesting article by Sebastian Brock, “The Thrice-Holy Hymn in the Liturgy.” The hymn to […]
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