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Summary I will translate the whole of the Third Letter of St Severus to Julian of Halicarnassus. This first section shows us that Julian was complaining that St Severus had…

Summary This is the last passage from the first lengthy response which St Severus sent to Julian of Halicarnassus. The main problem with Julian was that he considered only one…

Summary In this very interesting passage from the work of St Severus, he wants to express several important points. These are: The human nature does not become mixed with sin…

One of the questions which are often asked about Orthodoxy by those who are investigating our ancient and Apostolic faith, is why it is that we call our pastors and…

We should not imagine that the practice of unceasing prayer and the unfailing awareness of the presence of God is to be reserved only for a very few of the…

In the Gospel reading for today, the 25th day of the Egyptian month of Babah, we read the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, recorded in the 16th chapter of…

   I was asked today… Abouna, why is it that some people have a deep connection with God for some time and then fall into sin, while they are very…

Some have imagined that in the resurrection our human bodies will be spiritual, like the angels, and even that the body of our Lord Jesus was of this nature, and…

Translation from the work of St Severus of Antioch by Father Peter Farrington Why then, when the Doctors call the most holy body of our Lord, God and Saviour, Christ,…

Translation of St Severus of Antioch by Father Peter Farrington It is not, indeed, to challenge the consubstantiality with passions like ours, that Christ God and our Saviour was born…