The Teachings of the Twelve Apostles (Didache) on the Eucharist
The Teachings of the Twelve Apostles (Didache) on the Eucharist Celebrate the Eucharist as follows: Say over the cup: “we give you thanks, Father, for...
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Pentecost and New Life
Pentecost and New Life When the Lord told his disciples to go and teach all nations and baptize them in the name of the Father and...
Spiritual Transformation
Spiritual Transformation After Christ had completed his mission on earth, it still remained necessary for us to become sharers in the divine nature of the...
Glorious Feast of the Resurrection
Glorious Feast of the Resurrection It is the Day of the Resurrection, and my Beginning has good auspices. Let us then keep the Festival...
Doubting Thomas
Doubting Thomas “…24Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25The other disciples therefore said to...
Fasting and the body
+ “It is strange, while we care and increase our concern for our bodies, and eat delicious food for our health, and go out in...
True Fasting
+ “The Bible says “He who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” (Matt10:38). Carrying the cross includes...
Memoirs of Fr Matta El Maskeen Part 2
On the day I departed to the monastery, the one to whom I had handed over the pharmacy ran after me asking, ‘What are you...
Multicultured Monks of Wadi Al Natrun
Multicultured Monks of Wadi Al Natrun The prophecy of the child Jesus, which he gave during the journey of the Holy Family to Egypt, when...
Memoirs of Fr Matta El Maskeen Part 1
Without a doubt, the one who fights against the flow of the world finds violent opposition from the world and from Satan its prince. He...
The Symbolism of the Monk‘s Kalansowa
The Symbolism of the Monk‘s Kalansowa:1- It symbolizes the soldier‘s helmet in wars which protects him from the strokes of the enemy. In the same...
The Conscience
The Conscience Some have a strict conscience that doubts everything and thinks that right is wrong, and others have a free conscience that justifies many...
A Pure Conscience
A Pure Conscience The life of the Christian has three distinguishing aspects: deeds, words and thought. Thought comes first, then words, since our words express...
Repentance
Sin is a fearful evil and dangerous sickness of the soul. Sin weakens it sneakily and hands it paralyzed into eternal hell. It is however...
Paths of Repentance
Paths of RepentanceWould you like me to list also the paths of repentance? They are numerous and quite varied, and all lead to heaven. FIRST...
The Ego and Pride
The Ego and PrideBy: HH Pope Shenouda III Only a person who is wrongly concerned about himself, or who loves himself in a wrong way,...
How to Overcome your Ego
How to overcome your Ego By: Fr Matta Elmaskeen (Fr Matthew the poor) The First CounselNever rely on your own wisdom or might or on...
Our Mother St Mary – A Humble Soul LIFE OF HUMILITY
Our Mother St Mary – A Humble SoulLIFE OF HUMILITY Hail to the pride of the human race! Hail to the ladder of Jacob, who...
The Virgin Mary and the fast dedicated to her name
The Virgin Mary and the fast dedicated to her nameThere is no woman about whom the prophets prophesied, and about whom the Holy Bible cared about,...
The Life of St Moses the Strong
The Life of St Moses the StrongWe all look up to the saints, aspiring to their holiness and love for God, but subconsciously are often...
Abba Moses the Ethiopian, a Captain of Thieves
Abba Moses the Ethiopian, a Captain of Thieves There was a certain man whose name was Moses, was by race an Ethiopian, and his skin...
World Youth Day!
Youth Day Report Saturday the 30th May was another successful and blessed day with event of the year, Monastery World Youth Day. What an amazing...
A Notification From God
A Notification From GodBy John-Paul Botros Every discerning Christian knows that they are to live ‘In this world, but not of this world’. “For God...
I Rejoice in My Chains
I Rejoice in My Chains- Experiences from Jail ‘I was aiming for a life like this, in which a person would live in total isolation...
4th Century Response to a Epidemic
By: Rodney Stark At the height of the second great epidemic, around 260, in his Easter letter, Dionysius Patriarch of Alexandria wrote a lengthy tribute...
Praise of Christ’s Resurrection
We should understand, beloved, that the paschal mystery is at once old and new, transitory and eternal, corruptible and incorruptible, mortal and immortal. In terms...
World Teens Day Report
World Teens Day ReportThank you to everyone who attended our very first World Teens’ Day! This event would not have been possible without you. We...
Enter your Chambers and Shut your Doors
“Lord, in their trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them” Is 26:16 It is as though...
Repentance that changes the heart of God
Now, do you have another road that leads to repentance? If so, which one? The one that mourns the sin. Have you sinned? Mourn and...
Suffering Job
Suffering Job On both sides, beloved, reap the utmost gain, and avoid the imitation of Adam knowing how many ills are begotten of laziness and...
True Love
True Love Love is to be directed first to God If we wish to understand love in its true scriptural foundations, we must set before...
Communal Fasting & Worship
Communal Fasting & Worship During these difficult days, we are increasingly called upon to worship as a community in the unity of Spirit, in one...
The Ninevites and US
The Ninevites and Us We may be shocked when we look at what happened in Nineveh. As soon as the king knew what had happened...
The Nativity and Eternal Life
The Nativity and Eternal Life Eternal life appeared incarnate when Christ was born in Bethlehem. Eternal life was revealed and seen and touched, after it...
The Nativity and Humility
The Nativity and Humility The Son has invited us to learn humility from Him and said: “Learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly...
The Nativity of St John the Baptist
The Nativity of St John the Baptist The Church observes the birth of John as in some way sacred; and you will not find any...
In The Wilderness
In The Wilderness The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God [Isaiah...
The Desert Fathers on Judging
THE DESERT FATHERS ON NOT JUDGING OTHERS ISAAC THE THEBAN One day Abba Isaac went to a monastery. He saw a brother committing a sin...
Judging
Judging If a person judges somebody he is willingly allowing himself to defame others and hurt them. If we know the reasons behind judging...
Repentance
Repentance Would you like me to list also the paths of repentance? They are numerous and quite varied, and all lead to heaven. FIRST PATH...
