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, falls in pride. He grows in his own eyes and likes to be...
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 human strength in any of your works. Otherwise, your mind will become dim and...
Our Mother St Mary – A Humble SoulLIFE OF HUMILITY
Hail to the pride of the human race! Hail to the ladder of Jacob, who through the incarnation has allowed us to reach heaven. The magnificent glory which...
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, like the Virgin Mary. There are numerous symbols about her in the...
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 resigned that we will never be “a saint”. In our minds, the...
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 was black. He was the slave of a man in high authority....
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 day it was with Bishop Daniel, the bishop of St Shenouda's Monastery in Sydney...
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 created man for immortality, and made him an image of his own eternity.”...
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 and in continual connection with God. However, God did not allow this for...
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 to the heroic nursing efforts of local Christians, many of whom lost their...
