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Time and Calendars of Jesus Birth - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

Time and Calendars of Jesus’ Birth

The reckoning of time in antiquity went through a variety of permutations and combinations until Julius Caesar, on the basis of the Egyptian solar...
Preparing the Heart For Our Saviour to Dwell - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

Preparing the Heart For Our Saviour to Dwell

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE NATIVITY FAST (ADVENT FAST)? Why is the Coptic Church concerned with the Nativity Fast, in which her members fast...
St John the Baptist as an Everyday Christian - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

St John the Baptist as an Everyday Christian

The Life of St John the Baptist has some very interesting aspects that can apply to every Christian today. From The Angels announcement to his...
John is the voice Jesus is the Word - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

John is the voice Jesus is the Word

John is the voice, but the Lord is the Word who was in the beginning. John is the voice that lasts for a time;...
On Christian Marriage - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

On Christian Marriage

Marriage was ordained by God as a blessing to the human race. A certain wise man in the Scriptures, when enumerating which blessings are...
Jesus the Bridegroom - St Shenouda Monastery

Jesus the Bridegroom

In our day controversy abounds over the mysterious institution we call "marriage." For some, marriage is a purely human invention, a kind of civil...
St Basil - Baptism

Baptism – Being Born Again in Water & Spirit

Our Lord made a covenant with us through baptism in order to give us eternal life. There is in baptism an image both of...
5 Interesting Facts About Baptism - St Shenouda Monastery

5 Interesting Facts About Baptism

In the sacrament of Baptism we die with Christ and rise with Christ. Many people confuse the sacrament of Baptism with the sacrament of...
Transfigured life - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

Transfigured Life

The word transfiguration in Greek is the word Metamorphosis (Meta - form or nature), (Morphosis - complete change). It is the same word we...
Creativity is Transfiguration - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos

Creativity is Transfiguration

We have mentioned before, that the human nature obtains a kind of transfiguration in the general resurrection, when it will be clothed with spiritual...

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