Tag: St. Ephrem

• St. Ephrem – The Deformities Made Beautiful

  January 28, 2010

  “Free will succeeded in making Adam’s beauty ugly, for he, a man, sought to become a god. Grace, however, made beautiful his deformities and God came to become a man. Divinity flew down to draw humanity up, for the Son had made beautiful the deformities of the servant and so he has become a god, Read more
• St. Ephrem the Syrian

  June 10, 2009

  Today, June 10, is the feast of St. Ephrem of Syria, deacon, teacher, poet, orator, and defender of the faith. St. Ephrem was born around 306 and died in 373. He is said to have accompanied James, Bishop of Nisbis to the Council of Nicaea in 325. St. Ephrem retired to a cave outside Edessa, Read more