This interesting hardcover book won’t tell you what the Lord looked like, but it will tell you five things about his appearance: (1) what he most probably wore; (2) what […]
Read moreAuthor: Fr Yuhanna Azize
The Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation (“the Apocalypse”) is itself so astounding, almost miraculous a book, that one could fairly evoke it as a itself confirming us in the rationality of our […]
Read more“John Who Saw”
There is a little-known, but very interesting book called John Who Saw by the English lawyer Adrian Howell North Green-Armytage (who must be deceased by now). It is admittedly a layman’s […]
Read moreJ.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part II)
Chapter VII of Newman’s Rise and Progress of Universities is titled “Athenian Schools: Influence.” This entire post is devoted to it, because Newman makes the invaluable point that we need virtue […]
Read moreNina Simone: “God, God, God”
Nina Simone (1933-2003) was not an ordinary person. She was not. I wish I had time to do justice to her achievement, but she was talented to an extraordinary degree. […]
Read moreJ.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part I)
In 2001, Gracewing and Notre Dame jointly published Rise and Progress of Universities and Benedictine Essays, being vol. III in the Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition of the Works of Cardinal John Henry […]
Read moreWhat Is Mysticism?
Introduction Before I came across Gurdjieff, and I was very young at the time, only eighteen, I was attracted by the idea of a mystic union with God. I had […]
Read moreHumanity and its Cultures
God is divine, we are human, animals are sentient, plants are organic, and minerals are matter. This is the hierarchy or sacred order of existence, and so the peak of the […]
Read moreA Syriac Meditation on Hosanna Sunday
“Hosanna Sunday” (Syriac, Had b-šabo dooša3ne), is one of the great feasts of the Syriac Christian calendar. It is not as important as Easter, but it is more than just […]
Read moreWhich Religious Orders Are Growing?
A friend has drawn my attention to this remarkable article: “The Data on the Death of Religious Orders”, by two academics, Jack P. Oostveen and David L. Sonnier, at https://onepeterfive.com/data-death-religious-orders/ That […]
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