I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.
Meletius the Great, Archbishop of Antioch
He is one of the fathers of the fourth century AD. St. Gregory the Theologian described him as “a pious, meek, humble heart whose lights of the Holy Spirit shine.”
Paul the Thebes, the righteous saint and the first hermit
Its origins: On the fifteenth of January, our church celebrates our righteous father Paul the Thebe, the first of the solitary hermits in Christian history.
The Secret of Spiritual Warfare - Meditate on the Fourth Psalm
“When I called, the God of my righteousness answered me; You comforted me in sorrow; had compassion on me and heard my prayer.” “A Psalm of David at the End of the Psalms”
The emanation of the Holy Spirit
“And when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me” (John 15:26)
Explanation of the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Mark
Feeding the Four Thousand: 1 In those days, when the crowd was very great, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples
Martyrdom and martyrs in the church
Testimony: Witness, testify means both the witness before the court and the one who gave his blood for Christ. The witness and the martyr are one in Arabic.
Gregory IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Who is he? His name was originally Ghantus the Blacksmith. He is the son of Girgis bin Ghantous from Abiy, one of the villages in the west (Mount Lebanon).
Pelagianism
Please return to Nestorius and the Third Ecumenical Council, the second chronological period of the history of Antioch in the History section
Easter greeting
The Easter greeting (“Christ is Risen”) is the greeting that the believer extends to his fellow believer every time they meet, for a period of forty days, i.e.