[Scroll to the Original Arabic — انتقل إلى العربية الأصلية] In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — the One God. Amen. The Homily for the Feast of Nayrouz by Father Šams al-Ri’āsa Abū al-Barakāt, known as Ibn Kabar, Priest of the Hanging Church.[1] Glory be to God, to whom belongs glory and majesty, greatness and perfection, and eternity without end; who created the ages and the days, ordered the months and the years, appointed the luminaries for their orbit

The Discourse which Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Rakote, pronounced concerning the passage in the Gospel of Saint Matthew, “The kingdom which is in the heavens is like unto a rich man, who came out in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.” The Lord says in the Gospel of Matthew: [1] The kingdom which is in the heavens is like unto a certain rich man, who came out in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the laborers [to pay them

“[Y]ou see in yourself word and understanding, an imitation of the very Mind and Word. Again, God is love…the Fashioner of our nature has made this to be our feature too.” — St. Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man 5.2 These words of St. Gregory wonderfully and concisely capture the human condition as being made in the Image and Likeness of God. Often, despite striving to reach the measure of God’s love and to cultivate pure, selfless hearts in accordance with His example

A paper presented by His Holiness Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch (1980-2014), at a Pro Oriente conference, while he was...

In celebrating and commemorating lofty historical moments and characters, one often meets the grandeur of their memory with a natural...

Introduction and Cursory Remarks Delineating with any clarity a linear and certain path resulting in the formulation of Arianism — as...