How to Benefit Spiritually from Pascha Week by H.H. Pope Shenouda III How do we enjoy the most spiritual week of the year? Our behavior inside and outside church: It is very noticeable that many people during Passion Week act very differently inside church than they do outside church. Inside church… …
By: Marianne Ibrahim When dealing with children and young people it is really important to know when to pick your battles and what your purpose is. For example, taking my child to church every Sunday from birth. Obviously, at birth and during the early years, a child is not going to understand a whole lot …
Why did Jesus fast? 1. Setting an example: “He sets before us His acts as our example,” (St. Cyril commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke) Christ humbled Himself and became man to show us how to return to the nature in which He created us and which was corrupted by the fall. If we …
There was also another brother sitting in a corner reciting the twelve minor prophets, and as often as he would recite them, beginning each one in order, our father Abba Shenouda would see the prophet he was reciting standing by the brother until he finished the recitation. He would then leave and sit by our …
A prominent event in the Lives of St. Shenouda is that in which the Abbot accompanies St. Cyril to the Council of Ephesus (431 AD.). This fact has been attested to by St. Wesa as well as St. Shenouda himself. It is also upheld by the majority of scholars. However, "why was Shenoute invited to …
St Shenouda was born on the 7th of Pashans 49AM / 2nd of May 333 AD, in Shandawil, a village near Akhmim in Upper Egypt. At the age of nine years old, St Shenouda’s righteous parents Darouba and Agbous asked shepherds to teach him how to care for the sheep, and to send him back …
When Shenoute was born in the middle of the fourth century C.E., Coptic literature barely existed. Only a century had passed since a writing system began to be standardized for the notation of Coptic, and although translations of the Christian Bible and a variety of other religious works were being disseminated, original compositions in Coptic …
“For my father Abba Shenouda of good memory whose feast we celebrate today is worthy to have his good works related, his asceticism, his way of life, his admirable virtues and the great and incredible signs, just like those of the holy prophets and the apostles of the Lord.” The life of Abba Shenouda This …
In the name of the living, holy God, Creator of the bodies and the souls, who made thanksgiving due upon us forever. And made us praise and glorify Him for his great mercy and favor for us. For as we fell down, He raises us up, and as we sinned and repented, He forgave us. …
I am not sure that Shenoute ever explicitly called himself a prophet, but others have used the label for him frequently. What have they meant in doing so? Already in antiquity Shenoute's first biographers called him a prophet. To be sure, disciples and admirers of other monks called their heroes prophets or compared them to …
