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“You who have been set over others, you have heard the Apostle Paul saying, Let him who is in charge carry out his work in diligence (Rom 12:8), and, Let no one despise your youth (1 Tim 4:12). See to it that you never use your position to fulfill your own passions. For the ScriptureContinue reading “The Feast of St Ephrem 2022”

I recently came across a blog post by Dr. Alan Suciu, a researcher and scholar of Coptic Christianity and Literature, which features some articles related to the Greek Ephrem. I want to thank Dr. Suciu for posting these and acknowledge my use of them. You can have a look at Dr. Suciu’s site here. (AndContinue reading “Some Articles on St. Ephrem”

“Christ is bread, wine, and oil.” The short sermon “On the Cross” (CPG 4104) is as much a meditation on the biblical image of the Vineyard of God as it is a meditation on the saving work of Christ. Indeed, this short text identifies the Cross of Christ as the inheritance of Christians (taken fromContinue reading “New Translation: “On the Cross””

During these most holy days preceding the Lord’s Suffering and Crucifixion, we share with you the metrical sermon On the Lord’s Passion attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian in Greek. This text was translated by the late Fr. Ephrem Lash and featured on his Anastasis site. Thankfully, this site is archived here, and Fr. Ephrem’sContinue reading “On the Passion of the Savior, trans. E. Lash”

Index of Gospel Passages and Pericopes If you would like to read patristic commentaries on the Gospel using the translations in Toal’s Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, it may be useful, if you are not an expert in the Tridentine lectionary, to consult the following index of pericopes or Gospel passages: I. By orderContinue reading “M.F. Toal, Sermons of the Great Fathers: Index of Gospel Passages”

Although the manuscript in its entirety is not digitized, one cannot resist sharing this lovely image of St. Ephrem the Syrian (Effrem Diaconus) in a Latin manuscript of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris (which today forms part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France). The manuscript (codex 233) originated in the Benedictine monastery of St.Continue reading “A Medieval Latin Image of St. Ephrem”

If you know the Spiritual Psalter of St. Theophan the Recluse (St. John of Kronstadt Press, 1997), you know that this is a collection of 150 Ephremic texts arranged into a collection of prayers to be prayed like the psalms. Like the rest of the corpus of St. Ephrem, these prayers are deeply penitential andContinue reading “Identifying the Greek Texts of St. Theophan’s Spiritual Psalter”

 St. Ephrem the Syrian in Byzantium A Symposium on the Greek Writing Attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian Saturday, November 9, 2019 Sensenbrenner Hall 104 10am – 3pm Please join us this coming Saturday on the campus of Marquette University for a symposium on the Greek Ephrem.  For a full program of the day’s events,Continue reading “Symposium on the Greek Ephrem”

We recently came across an amended reprint of some hymns and sermons of St. Ephrem the Syrian published by St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence, Arizona. Entitled Eschatological Hymns and Homilies, it contains seven texts (or groups of texts) on the end times, a theme that is very prominent in the Greek corpus as well theContinue reading “More Greek Ephrem in Translation”

Things have been busy, but we’ve recently added some updates to the Bibliography section as well as the Manuscripts. You can also read a short new text here on the righteous Noah, who gives us an example of not conforming ourselves to a wicked generation or making an excuse that the times are evil.