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Jesus and Jonah: The Second Point of Contact (Calming the Storm) Goppelt says of the story of how Jesus calmed the storm that: “The similarity in the descriptions of the […]

“A typology is a belief that objects, events, persons, and institutions exist and occur in relationship to other corresponding objects, events, persons, and institutions. For earthly things, when considered antitypes, […]

The history of the Maronites under Islamic rule is a sober and often a sad one: because of the Miaphysite debate and the supervening Arab conquest, the seat of Antioch […]

God created us in His image and likeness. He created the universe according to His wisdom, according to an order (Ecclesiasticus 16:27). That order is the pattern of heaven on […]

Fr Badwi makes only brief remarks about this icon, writing: “Against the background of the previous icon, the haemorrhaging woman touches the fringe of Jesus’ cloak and she is healed. […]

The Sunday of the Leper is the first full Sunday of Lent in the Maronite calendar. Fr Badwi states: “This icon of the Healing of the Leper, like the following […]

God called us into being. He spoke, and we were. God is life. God is the fullness of life. He is perfect life; complete, endless, and good, He shares His […]

Cana Sunday is the entrance to Lent, but the first day of Lent is Ash Monday. It commemorates the first sign performed by the Lord, as passed on by St John: On […]

Jacob of Sarug on The Creation of Adam and the Resurrection of the Dead, trans. and introduced, Edward G. Mathews Jr. Gorgias Press This memra by St Jacob of Sarug […]

Once more, I am profoundly impressed by how much detail, and how much thought has gone into this icon. Fr Badwi states of it: “The Righteous and the Just are […]