Dec 04, 2019 Α’κολουθι’α του~ A’ναγνω’στου, η’γουν τα Συλλειτουργικα’ …
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.” -- St. John of Damascus from his Treatise on Images Α'κολουθι'α του~ A'ναγνω'στου, η'γουν τα Συλλειτουργικα' ...
Jul 10, 2017 Book of the Week — تاريخ راشد افندي
تاريخ راشد افندي تاريخ راشد قسطنطنية : ابراهيم من متفرقه كان The first Turkish printing house was established in Istanbul on December 14, 1727. The director of the press was Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745), a Hungarian convert to Islam. In 1726 Muteferrika sent a report on the efficiency of...
Jun 19, 2017 Book of the Week — Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min ithnay ‘ashar min talāmīdhihi
“Ne arbitremini quod ego uenetim ut mitterem super terram pacem; non ueni ut mitterem pacem, sed gladium (“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.)” — Matthew 10:34...
Mar 30, 2017 On Jon’s Desk: The Generall Historie of the Turkes, a beautiful book linking the past and the present
“What small assurance there is in mens affaires, and how subject unto change even those things are wherein we for the most part repose our greatest felicitie and blisse, (beside that the whole course of mans fraile life, by many notable examples well declareth) nothing...
Jan 17, 2017 Book of the week — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral…
“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...