How do I convince my family and friend about my monastic calling? When Moses asked Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go to the wilderness to worship their God, Pharaoh refused and even gave orders to his workers, “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go …
A brother asked a certain Elder: How does one become foolish for the sake of Christ? The Elder replied to him: There was a young boy in a monastery. He was given to an ascetic Elder to rear and to teach the word of God. So, the Elder said to the boy, 'My child, when …
Unfortunately St Shenouda , such a great saint and prolific author is still relatively unexamined by western historians of Christianity for several reasons. First, St. Shenouda remains unmentioned in Greek and Latin writings about Egyptian monasticism. Second, St. Shenouda has been depicted in historiography as a man more violent and less intellectually sophisticated than his …
Is Celibacy something you have to work hard to attain or is it a Gift from God? Those who think that being celibate is merely a struggle on the part of the individual are wrong, no matter how holy that struggle is. Otherwise our Lord would not have said: "but only to whom it has …
Tremendous, verily, is the mystery connected with thee, O virgin mother, thou spiritual throne, glorified and made worthy of God. Thou hast brought forth, before the eyes of those in heaven and earth, a pre-eminent wonder. And it is a proof of this, and an irrefragable argument, that at the novelty of thy supernatural child-bearing, …
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (Rom 8:35,37) The last few weeks Egypt witnessed a systematic attaches on Churches and Christians businesses and …
