26- He confessed to one baptism... What is baptism - Baptism is in brief: 1- Descent into the baptismal font to bury the old man […]
15- And he ascended to heaven. On the fortieth day of Resurrection, Jesus ascended to heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father. The right hand of God -
The third section: Our ecclesiastical life: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9). Perhaps one of the most common topics.
The prayer, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” This is the “Kinonicon” (το κοινωνικόν), that is, the hymn in preparation for the “Kinonia” κοινωνία - Communion. Her frequency
1- “I am not doing the good I want to do.” As the day began, the old man was forced, under our intense insistence, to investigate the depths of the matter which
The twenty-third meeting: with Father Theonas (3) - the perfection we desire Continue reading »
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.
D- Jesus was rejected by Israel. His conversion to the pagans, proclaiming the Kingdom of God to them also 6:1 - 8:26 in
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Before Christ's sacrifice on the cross, He offered up a fervent prayer for all who would believe in His name, asking His Father to preserve them in divine unity. These words of Christ are not a call to external unity, but to absolute internal unity, similar to the unity of the three persons in the Holy Trinity, that is, to the unity that man lost because of the fall. They are based on the three persons and are represented by them, and signify man's salvation and perfection.
في الفترة التي تلت العصر الرسولي انتقل موقع الرسل في الكنيسة، كما حدَّده الكتاب المقدّس، إلى الأساقفة. كانت سلطة الأسقف في الكنيسة الأولى سلطة المسيح والكنيسة ولم تكن سلطة شخصيّة. وكما أن الرسل كان لديهم “فكر المسيح”، والقرارات التي كانوا يتّخذونها في المسائل الكنسية تتم بإرشاد الروح القدس وليس من لدنهم.
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The heavenly birth that Christ speaks of is “the washing of regeneration and renewal that comes from the Holy Spirit,” that is, receiving the Holy Spirit through baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity. It is the presence of the Holy Spirit that renews the birth of man. This presence takes place within the Church through the sacrament of baptism and the other sacraments.
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The Church is the link between humans themselves, and between them and God, in the image of the partnership existing between the Holy Trinity. In this sense, there was a Church in Paradise, but the fall of man from the first communion led to the transfer of the Church from Paradise to earth.
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Christ himself belongs to this community as its head, not only as Lord and Master. He is not above the Church or outside it, for the Church is in him. The Church is not merely a community that believes in Christ and walks in his footsteps or according to his commandments, but rather the community that resides in him and in which he resides through the Holy Spirit.
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