When we look at the Maronite liturgy and its history, let us not lose sight of the most important fact of all: it is a supernatural, sacramental, sacrificial, liturgical action. […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
The Praises of Mary
First of all let us ask our guardian angel to help us meditate well and dutifully upon the mystery of Our Lady, to commence with what it clear, and to […]
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St Jacob of Sarug’s First Homily on the Nativity
Jacob of Sarug’s First Homily on the Nativity In his first homily on the Nativity, written as a poem rather than a speech, St Jacob of Sarug presents two main […]
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Trompf on Meditation and Contemplation in the Early Church
A very interesting study of meditation and contemplation in the Christian tradition was published by my colleague Professor Garry W. Trompf, one of the world’s leading schoalrs of religion. This […]
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St J.H. Newman’s University Sermon on Wisdom and Faith (pt. I)
One of the most highly regarded series of St John Henry Newman’s writings is his University Sermons, being fifteen of the most important sermons he preached when he was an […]
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Is Maronite Art European?
Is Maronite Art European? It is noteworthy that, so far as I can see, and Fr Badwi’s icons excepted, Maronite depictions of Our Lord present Him as a European, with […]
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Credibility and Behaviour: Mass Exodus
For Part One: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/03/stephen-bullivant-mass-exodus/ For Part Two: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/12/bullivant-mass-exodus-part-two/ I now come to a more theoretical side of Bullivant’s work. I am not in favour of the tendency to invent theories and then […]
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Biblicist Assumptions: Brown on the “Community of the Beloved Disciple”
Having discussed some basis Biblicist assumptions, http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/10/08/modern-biblicist-logic-raymond-brown-and-the-beloved-disciple/ let us consider Raymond E. Brown’s use of the theory of “The Community of the Beloved Disciple.” This came to the fore in […]
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Why Do Catholic Children Leave the Faith? (Mass Exodus)
For Part One: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/03/stephen-bullivant-mass-exodus/ Part Two: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/12/bullivant-mass-exodus-part-two/ Why do children raised in good Catholic families today, leave or otherwise stop being part of the Church? This questions has a special poignancy when […]
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Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (2021)
The 25th Sunday after Pentecost as in 2021 Introit: (Jeremiah 29:11, 12, and 14) Thus says the Lord: “I think thoughts of peace, and not of affliction: you shall call upon […]
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