“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer”

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part One In about 2011, HarperCollins published Norris J. Chumley’s Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It is not an uninteresting book, as a travelogue, but its value for me lies […]

Contemplating the Holy Cross

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

In the two access prayers of the Maronite Divine liturgy, the priest chants “Salaw 3alay, metool moran,” and crosses his hands over his breast, bows to the left and then […]

The Altar Carving at Mount St Michael

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

I 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 […]

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

There is no mucking around with the Maronite icon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. The father of the parable is unequivocally shown as Our Lord Jesus Christ in […]

Ad Orientem Liturgies: Part IV

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Parts 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 […]

Ad Orientem Liturgies: Part III

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part 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 […]

The Feast of the Faithful Departed

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Sunday 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 […]

The Five Hundred Martyrs of Tyre

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

The 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 […]

Ad Orientem Liturgies: Part II

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part 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 […]

St Ephrem

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Greek was the language of educated Antioch, and the main language of the Church. But as we move towards the specifically Maronite tradition, we enter the world of Syriac. Ephrem […]

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