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Topic 1: A First Example of Modern Biblicist Logic, Raymond Brown and the Beloved Disciple  Why is historical method important? Consider this: the late priest and Professor Raymond E. Brown was […]

Jacob of Sarug wrote a verse homily on Jacob the Patriarch’s Revelation at Bethel (trans. Dana Miller, Gorgias Press, 2020). This is based on Genesis 28:10-22: Now Jacob … came […]

Typically incisive, chapter 2 of Part II of Robert Hugh Benson’s Non-Catholic Denominations is titled “The Nonconformists: Nonconformity in General.” Now, the “Nonconformists” in English religion were those Protestants who […]

On 18 October we celebrate the feast of St Luke. Of course, we also remember him and seek his intercession on the occasion of the feast of the Four Evangelists. […]

The universe, including our planetary and human worlds, were made on the model of the Holy Cross. Therefore, by meditating on those worlds, we can find the truths of the […]

St John Henry Newman on the Assumption Part One The Sermon Notes of John Henry Cardinal Newman 1849-1878, edited by James Tolhurst, are always rewarding material to ponder. His notes […]

I suggest that “faith” and “tradition,” meaning the Christian tradition, are basically two aspects of the same reality. Faith is the truth about God considered as a spiritual good; that […]

The heart of Mar Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Samson is this: the beauty of the world is revealed to our spiritual eyes by seeing the antetypes of Christ in […]

Let us take three meditations on motherhood. For the first of them, I invite you to think about your grandmothers, and what your grandmothers represented for you. The grandmother has […]

The Ascension (soolōqō) falls the fortieth day after Easter, and nine days before Pentecost each year. In his Homily on the Ascension of Our Lord, St Jacob of Sarug relates […]