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According to Fr Sfeir, the first hermit known to have lived in Lebanon was a saint known as Erasmus of Elmo. Sfeir states that Erasmus came from Formia, in Italy. […]

St John Chrysostom, Feast 13 November St John Chrysostom is one of the most important of all the many famous bishops from Antioch. He is celebrated in the Maronite Liturgy […]

Holiness in the Family Home The best way of life is a prayerful one, remembering God. When we rise in the morning, we pray, we prepare ourselves, and dedicate our day […]

The Study of Texts for Maronite History Several times in my researches, I have come across a very interesting fact: the resources available to the student of Maronite history are […]

In last week’s post, http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/10/15/the-divine-liturgy-in-history-part-1/   I mentioned how the early Eucharistic liturgies were not fixed: the celebrant would produce most of the prayers as he went along, speaking from […]

It is fairly certain that the liturgy first celebrated in Antioch was conducted in the Greek language. Charbel Abdallah is of the view that Syriac began to become prominent in […]

The Baptists are the subject of the next section in Benson’s book, Noncatholic Denominations. He notes that they developed from a people called the “Anabaptists,” who go back to the […]

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 […]