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Thanks very much, brother John, and thanks to Blackfriars,

and thanks to the Domestic Institute for this wonderful opportunity to talk here.

Thanks to all of you, I see many young people.

It's a real pleasure to see people interested in spiritual teams, theological teams all gathered here.

It's a pleasure also for me to be here at Oxford University for several reasons.

The first is that it was here that in 1983, Sebastian Brock discovered an important part of Isaac's

writings, and this created a new interest in Isaac's corpus, in Isaac's thought.

A lot of publications are born from this, and so for me it's a honor to be here.

But it's a honor also because Sy's studies have been cultivated in this university for a long time.

It's one of the few places in Europe or in the European space where this is done.

So here we have a great opportunity to learn this culture and the language.

And I had the privilege to study here with Professor David Taylor.

It was a great honor, a great professor who, respectful of the research of the student and

able to guide us through the texts.

And it is through the text also that I want to journey with you today.

So in the handout, you find several quotations of Isaac that I translated. You find also the

Syriac. Not many of you will be able to read the Syriac, but maybe this is a suggestion,

let's say, for further study.

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