St Ephrem is a great spiritual ancestor for deacons! Enjoy this post, which I found on the Patheos blog by Frank Weathers. I came upon these lines while researching St. Ephrem the Syrian, the Deacon, and Doctor of the Church. As it turns out, St. Ephrem wrote almost all of his homilies in verse or … Continue reading “On Reproof,” A Poem By St. Ephrem of Syria, Deacon