A monk asked Abba John, "If I would like to give alms, but my thought has doubts about giving, what should I do?” Abba John replied, "Examine yourself, and if you find that you are doing this out of stinginess, then give something even beyond what you should have given, for example an additional small… Continue reading If Unwilling, Increase The Amount 2 Fold
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Rewards of Faithfulness
How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of God! Life in immortality, splendour in righteousness, truth in perfect confidence, faith in assurance, self-control in holiness! And all these fall under the cognizance of our understandings [now]; what then shall those things be which are prepared for such as wait for Him? St. Clement of… Continue reading Rewards of Faithfulness
St. Athanasius The Apostolic
This Church Father was a great Christian theologian and patriarch of the Coptic church in the 4th century, as well as the chief defender of the Trinitarian faith. St.Athanasius is best known for defending the Faith against the Arian heresy at the council of Nicaea, and for his numerous theological literature and scholarly work. He… Continue reading St. Athanasius The Apostolic
St.Bishoy the Great Egyptian Father
This Saint was Chose by God from a very young age, as was St David the King. Aba Bishoy in his later life took vows to monastisism. St. Ephrem the Syrian visited him, Emperor Constantine and Jeremiah the prophet appeared to him in visions. St. Bishoy saw our Lord Jesus Christ on several occasions. On… Continue reading St.Bishoy the Great Egyptian Father
St. John the Baptist
Today we celebrate with our Coptic and Ethiopian brethren New Year in the Church calendar. We remember the feast of St. John the Baptist, whom Herod witnessed flying into the air and crying out, saying, “It is not right for thee to take thy brother’s wife”; it is said that the head is at the… Continue reading St. John the Baptist
The Assumption of Saint Mary
Today we began the Feast of St.Mary. There was no relics of Marys to be venerated, and that an empty tomb stood on the edge of Jerusalem near the site of her death. This is so because “the Jews blocked their way to prevent them from burying the body, and decided to snatch and burn… Continue reading The Assumption of Saint Mary
Saint Makarios of Egypt
Indeed, it is becoming man that if he fasts or keeps the night vigil, or prays or does anything of good, he should attribute it all to the Lord, and say, "If God had not empowered me, I could never have fasted or prayed or left the world." In this way, God sees your good… Continue reading Saint Makarios of Egypt
Christ in Majesty
I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him;his dominion… Continue reading Christ in Majesty
Christ The Pantocrator—1
Jesus Christ, came into the world as a servant, nevertheless he is the ruler and judge of all, full of divine authority and power. Coptic Ethiopian/Eritrean Coptic Syriac Armenian Coptic Coptic
Fathers in Iconography 