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Blessed Estphan (also spelled “Estephan”) Nehme 30 August Blessed Estphan was born as Youssef Nehme in Lehfed, on 8 March 1889 a village in the Byblos area of Lebanon. The […]

 St Isaac the Syrian: Wonder and Amazement The Feast of St Isaac the Syrian is celebrated by the Maronite church on 23 August. He was born in modern-day Qatar, possibly […]

(Icon: Our Lord receives the soul of His Blessed Mother, shown as an infant in swaddling clothes) Why do we celebrate each year, on 15 August, the Feast of the […]

“Pentecost” is the name of both a feast and a season of the liturgical calendar. As a feast, it is the second Sunday after the Ascension, itself forty days after […]

The Glorious TRANSFIGURATION: 6 August “After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There […]

God the Father Almighty is All-good, All-knowing, and All-loving. He is infinitely more powerful than the devil, and if we stand with God in actual fact and not only in […]

My book An Introduction to the Maronite Faith, published by Connor Court, is available. Some Maronite churches have it in their gift shops, but with everything closing up once because […]

Robert Hugh Benson (1872-1914), was a Catholic Priest. He was the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury renowned for his anti-Catholic rhetoric, and was ordained an Anglican priest by his […]

Who was St Maroun (St Maron)? St Maroun is an enigma. He is important in Christian history: no other Catholic rite is exclusively named after one person, yet little is known […]

I was impressed by Ben Shapiro’s interview of Stephen C. Meyers on his Sunday Special. I have never read Meyers, although two of Stephen Meyer’s books (Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s […]