Category Archives: Middle East

Free ebook: "The Development of Dogmas during the Patristic Age, 100-869", by Rev. Bernard John Otten

02 Thursday Jan 2014

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  • A Manual of the History of Dogmas, Volume 1: The Development of Dogmas during the Patristic Age, 100-869, Third Edition, by Rev. Bernard John Otten, S.J. (St. Louis, London: B. Herder, 1922). With Imprimatur. May be read online and available in pdf, epub, daisy, djvu, kindle/mobi, and text formats at Internet Archive and Internet Archive (2nd copy).

On the Memorial of St. Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus (Nazianzen) in the Latin church (2 January in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) and in the Maronite church (1 January). For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). All ye holy Bishops and Confessors, pray for us. All ye holy Doctors, pray for us, to the greater glory of God!

“I have still much to say to you, but it is beyond your reach as yet. It will be for him, the truth-giving Spirit, when he comes, to guide you into all truth. He will not utter a message of his own; he will utter the message that has been given to him; and he will make plain to you what is still to come. And he will bring honour to me, because it is from me that he will derive what he makes plain to you. I say that he will derive from me what he makes plain to you, because all that belongs to the Father belongs to me.” (St. John 16:12-15)

Online ebook: "Light from the East: Miracles of Our Lady of Soufanieh", by Fr. Robert J. Fox

12 Thursday Sep 2013

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On the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary in the Roman Rite; and in remembrance of the Battle of Vienna (14 July-12 September 1683), in which Christian soldiers of many nations defeated the last great attempt of the Muslim world to conquer Christendom. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

With prayers for peace in Syria, and for the conversion of all the world to Christ and His Church.

Free ebook: "The Eastern Christians and Their Churches", by Father Steven Hawkes-Teeples

24 Saturday Aug 2013

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  • The Eastern Christians and Their Churches, by Father Steven Hawkes-Teeples, S.J. (New Haven, CT: Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, Catholic Information Service, 2008). With Imprimi Potest. Available in PDF format on this page of the Knights of Columbus.

On the Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle (Shliha Mar Bartholomeo). For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

Free ebook: "Muslim Persecution of Christians", by Robert Spencer

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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  • Muslim Persecution of Christians, by Robert Spencer (Sherman Oaks, CA: David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2008). 16 pages. Available in PDF format at [LINK DELETED UNTIL COPYRIGHT STATUS DETERMINED].

On the Feast of Saints George, Aurelius and Natalia, Felix and Liliosa, who were martyred by Muslims in Spain. For more legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

Free ebook: "The Government of the Church in the First Century: The Beginnings of the Christian Ministry", by William Moran

24 Sunday Feb 2013

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  • The Government of the Church in the First Century: an Essay on the Beginnings of the Christian Ministry, by William Moran (Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1913). With Imprimatur. Available in various formats at Internet Archive and Open Library.

On the Feast of St. Matthias in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists, pray for us!

"Diplomatic Relations between the Holy See and The State of Israel", by Henry P. Bocala

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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  • Diplomatic Relations between the Holy See and The State of Israel: Policy Basis in the Pontifical Documents (1948-1997) [Doctoral Thesis] by Henry P. Bocala (Rome: Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, 2003). 285 pages. Available in PDF format on this page of Bibliotecanonica.

In commemoration of the establishment of the Apostolic Nunciature in Israel and of the Embassy of Israel to the Holy See (19 January 1994). For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

Let us also pray for the Jews: that our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men… Almighty and eternal God, who want that all men be saved and come to the recognition of the truth, propitiously grant that even as the fullness of the peoples enters Your Church, all Israel may be saved [Romans 11:25-26]. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.*

*(From the revised Good Friday liturgy of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, as translated by Father John Zuhlsdorf)

Free ebook: "Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images", by St. John of Damascus

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

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  • Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images, by St. John of Damascus, translated by Mary H. Allies.May be read online at the Internet Medieval Source Book (Scanned by Gabriel Caswell and Dr. Stephen J. Shoemaker.  Prepared for HTML by Dr. Stephen J. Shoemaker).

On the Feast of St. John Damascene, Father of the Church.

Free ebook: "Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians Oppressed for Their Faith, 2011 Edition"

20 Tuesday Nov 2012

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  • Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians Oppressed for Their Faith, 2011 Edition, edited by John Pontifex and John Newton, with a Foreword by Archbishop Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (Sutton, Surrey, U.K.: Aid to the Church in Need, 2011). Available in PDF format on this page of Aid to the Church in Need.

On the Feast of St. Felix of Valois, Co-Founder of the Trinitarians (Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of the Captives) in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

Free ebook: The Knights of Malta: A Legend Towards the Future, by Marcello Trischitta

14 Friday Sep 2012

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  • The Knights of Malta: A Legend Towards the Future, by Marcello Maria Marrocco Trischitta (Rome: Association of the Italian Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta). Available in PDF format on this page of the Order of Malta website.

Posted in (belated) remembrance of the Great Siege of Malta (ended 11 September 1565), in which outnumbered Christian soldiers, led by the Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St. John, withstood the forces of the Ottoman Empire until the arrival of Spanish reinforcements and thus prevented Islam from gaining the gate of the Western Mediterranean. May we never forget how the Knights and citizens of Malta, under the blessed leadership of La Valette, helped save Christendom.