According to Luke’s Gospel (I, 26-38) and Church Tradition, nine month before the birth in the body of Jesus, God sent the angel Gabriel to a virgin whose name was Mary announcing her that she will conceive and give birth to a son who will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. “How will this ...

 Ephrem the Syrian, often referred to as the “lyre” or “harp” of the Holy Spirit, is known in the Church Tradition as the author of that pious and penitent Lenten Prayer which bears his name. He lived before the time that the Syriac-speaking Church was overcome by Hellenization, and thus he may be one of the...

Along with Saint Ephrem who lived in the 4th century before the time that the Syriac-speaking Church was overcome by Hellenization, Saint Isaac of Nineveh, who lived in the 7th century is one of the greatest Syriac Fathers and stands in the same eastern mystical tradition who put great emphasis on the work of the Holy...