Cain and Abel: 17 - Adam was expelled from Paradise, as was his wife Eve, and sorrows and difficulties came upon them, and their life in this world was dominated by […]
Chapter Thirty-Six: Prophecies about the greatness of Christ and about [the flight] to Egypt...etc. 1 - But what king ever reigned and conquered?
Inner beauty! 11. Indeed, “the king brought me into his chambers” (Song of Songs 1:4 LXX). Blessed is the soul that enters the chambers, when it ascends
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The perfect soul flees from evil, not from the earth. 6. As for the perfect soul, it stays away from matter, and abstains and rejects everything.
[When Saint Ambrose saw in Isaac the fountain of wisdom to which the pious soul (Rebekah) comes to drink from it, and does not approach the fountain
“Yourself” is too great to be appreciated, more valuable than the whole world! Therefore, Jesus Christ says: “What does it profit a person if he gains the whole world and loses?”
Introduction: We publish below, “lessons” that the monks of Deir al-Harf received in the year 1962 from the mouth of Father Andre Scrima, in the French language.
A journey to a better place and a higher life. He who truly possesses wise thinking, and directs the course of his life with the hope of future good things, then when
Easter on April 7, 334 AD. The concept of the feast My beloved ones… God has brought us again to the feast season, and through His love
In the previous stage we reached the threshold of the Promised Land and now we move to the stage of entering it and establishing the kingdom in it. Moses died before
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“I tell the truth in Christ; I lie not; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 9:1). 1 Was my speech not
Seventeenth Sermon: The Epistle to the Romans - Chapter Nine Continue reading »
1- The importance of rituals, their principle, and their nature in the church. We belong to the church by rituals in general, that is, by a set of symbols and movements (from candles, incense, and cycles).
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