By: Pope Shenouda III The start of a new year always carries a sense of possibility. It’s a reminder that life offers opportunities to reset and refocus—not just outwardly, but within. Here are three essential steps to help you walk into the new year with a renewed heart and spirit. Reflect on the …
- Father Youssef Asaad "Lord, I am indebted to You... indebted to You for my existence in this human form that resembles You, indebted to You for the holy parents who nurtured me in Your reverence. I am indebted to You for the spiritual paternal love that intoxicated me in the Church's fathers. I am …
Feast of Nayrouz By: Fr Tadros Y. Malaty Our celebration of the feast of Nayrouz is an active form of witnessing to the Holy Trinity, the Lover of Mankind, who works in and for us. We experience the sweetness of the Father's love who awaits our coming, the grace of the Only Begotten Son who …
The Feast of Nayrouz By: His Holiness Pope Shenouda III The Feast of Nayrouz means the feast of commemorating the martyrs and we do not commemorate the martyrs once a year, but it is as if we commemorate them every day. If those among you read the Synaxarium you will find that every day it …
Desert Fathers on Fasting A leader of a community asked Abba Poemen: “How can I gain the fear of God?” Abba Poemen replied: “How indeed can we gain the fear of God when we have bellies full of cheese and jars of salted fish?” Abba Poemen thus teaches us that the ultimate goal of fasting …
Fasting is the champion of every virtue, the beginning of the struggle, the crown of the abstinent, the beauty of virginity and holiness, the resplendence of chastity, the commencement of the path of Christianity, the mother of prayer, the well-spring of sobriety and prudence, the teacher of stillness, and the precursor of all good …
CHRIST THE TRUE SOLOMON Because Solomon had built a temple to the Lord – a prototype and an image of the future Church, the Lord’s body, which is why the Gospel says Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up – because the Solomon of history had built that temple, our Lord Jesus …
Why make requests of God if He already knows what we need? “Even if I grant your point and admit that answers to prayer are theoretically possible, I shall still think they are infinitely improbable.” I don't think it at all likely that God requires the ill - informed (and contradictory) advice of us humans …
SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS INTO THE MIDNIGHT PRAYER OF THE COPTIC CHURCH Father Matta El-Meskeen. The Church begins her daily service of worship at the hour of midnight in order to profess her belief in the second coming of Christ and in order to remember and also to be ready for His second coming. The Church has …
THE WISDOM OF THE PRAYERS OF THE HOURS The first wisdom is the unity of the church when praying, with one soul The church used to pray with “one soul" lifting up one voice to God (Acts 4:24). This will not occur unless the church is praying with one prayer, or the majority are leading …
