The Melkite Catholic SOPHIA Summer 2016 Journal Is Out - And It Rocks!

Bishop Nicholas J. Samra has been doing a wonderful job with bringing richness to the articles and photos in SOPHIA, The [Quarterly] Journal of the Eparchy of Newton for Melkite Catholics in the United States. A sense of cohesiveness is present, not only in the material, but in the community of Melkite persons it serves.

Click here for the online version in pdf format.

It has wonderful pictures.

 IN THIS ISSUE

From the Editor: The Beauty of God’s Creation	3
From the Bishop: Joyful Stewards of Our 50-Year Jubilee	4
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines	6
Deacon Paul Ordained Fr. Theophan	9
The Melkite Church at Second Vatican Counsel	10
Archbishop Jeanbart Pleads for Aleppo	15
Syrian Christians “Reckoned as Sheep for the Slaughter”	17
The Great Council of the Orthodox Church	18
The Origins of Byzantine Chant	20
The Church as Servant	23
A New Testament Gallery of Marian Images	24
Memory Eternal	25
Melkite Quiz Feast Days and Saints’ Days	26
[National Association of Melkite Youth] NAMY Turns 35	28
Our Small Size Empowers Apostolic Life	29
Exarch Joseph Haggar Celebrates Golden Jubilee	30
Re ections on Vocations and Anniversaries	31
Around the Eparchy	33
[National Association of American Melkite Women] NAMW	38
Navigating the Eparchy	39

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