Part Two - Section One: 2- The history of God’s preparation of humanity for salvation
Cain and Abel: 17 - Adam was expelled from Paradise, as was his wife Eve. Sorrows and difficulties came upon them, and their life in this world was dominated by
Chapter 36-40
Chapter Thirty-Six: Prophecies about the greatness of Christ and about [the flight] to Egypt...etc. 1 - But what king ever reigned and conquered?
Enjoying the soul with the kingdom’s robes – “Heavenly Life”
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
Rebekah is a symbol of the church
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.
The spiritual man and the physical man
[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
Introduction: How great you are!
“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?”
In the priesthood
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.
Do not weep for those who have fallen asleep - a sermon on death - Saint John Chrysostom
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
The sixth Easter message
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
Part Three: Chapter Five: Ownership or the Promised Land
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
Seventeenth Sermon: The Epistle to the Romans - Chapter Nine
“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
Chapter Three: Belonging to the Church through rituals
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).