“In Silence Our Hearts Become Attentive To The Voice Of God”
“Be still and know that I am God!” is the first part of Psalm 46:10. The command to “be still” comes from the stem of the verb (רפה) rapha (meaning to be weak, to let go, to release), which might...
View Article‘ I Need To Return To My Father’s House’
Verse for the day: I Corinthians 16: 13, 14 Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. Reflection: St Paul is reminding the church in Corinth...
View ArticleCome to me, I will give you rest
Meditation Text: St. Matthew 11: 25-12: 8 Verse for the day: St. Matthew 11: 28 – 30 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me;...
View ArticleI Know My Redeemer Lives and I Will See God
Verse for the day: Job 19: 255, 26 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God…...
View ArticleEncountering God In His Word
Text for Meditation: 2 Timothy 3:14—4:5 Verse for the Day: 2 Timothy 3: 16,17 All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in...
View ArticleThe Feast of Theophany
Translation: “By Your Baptism, O Lord, purify our minds to be a place for Your majesty. And by Your manifestation, enlighten our senses that we may thank You for Your grace.” The Church moves from the...
View ArticleThe Eucharistic Theology in The Thought of Ephrem the Syrian
Part 1 – Ephrem and the Liturgy Life of Ephrem In this paper, I will analyze Ephrem’s most important madrashe on the liturgy, “The Mysteries of the Eucharist,” along with his madrashe on Faith,...
View ArticleThe Eucharistic Theology in The Thought of Ephrem the Syrian
Part II – Eucharistic Symbolism in Ephrem Eucharist as “Food” In Ephrem’s writings, the Eucharist emerges as a complex reality that can never be reduced or exclusively equated with any one of its...
View ArticleReflections on the Holy Nativity of Our Lord
“The Virgin has Begotten the Wonderful; Let us go and Behold Him” Reflections on the Nativity of Christ Introduction When the Creator saw that man, who He had made with His own hands, perish, He was...
View ArticleWeek 4 of Great Fast
Devotional based on texts taken from the Scripture Readings of Fourth Sunday of Fifty days Lent – Canaanite Woman “O Physician who have come to visit Your people which was lost, heal my daughter! Be...
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