ABSTRACT
A reader might well ask, ‘what is the relevance to the topic of the Practice of the Presence of God of a writer who lived long ago and who came from a faraway country?’ St. Ephrem, however, was proclaimed a ‘Doctor of the universal Church’, now approaching a century ago, by Pope Benedict XV (in 1920), and on these grounds alone it would seem that he is at least someone who has something of value to say to the Church in the modern world.
