Crucifixion date – day, month and year
Incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection are the three most important events in the life of the Lord Jesus. He has glory on earth and in salvation history. This is why it is natural [...]
The seven words of Christ on the cross
Our Redeemer Christ spoke from the cross of His ineffable suffering - as if it were a pulpit - with His seven last words: words of tenderness and love, words of forgiveness and peace, words
Chapter Three: Chapter Three: The Promise
In the previous chapter, the creative Word of God presented us with the tragedy of man, which is the fall. Man was a friend of God, who spoke to him face to face.
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John the Ladder of Sinai
He is John of Sinai, named after Sinai, and he was named Al-Sulami because he wrote the book “The Ladder of Virtues.” Saint John of the Ladder was born in Palestine around
Chapter Twenty-Four - The Holy Cross
It is clear that the Old Testament foreshadowings point not only to the event of Christ’s crucifixion, but also to the sign of the cross itself, the “sign of the Son of Man,” which will be the banner of victory at the Lord’s triumphant coming. The cross of the Lord is an expression of God’s infinite love and of man’s infinite value. There is no greater expression of God’s love than the cross, and there is no greater elevation of man than his elevation to the reality of the cross.
Sermons for the Triodi time
Section Three: Sermons for the Time of the Triodi His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazeem) (*) One of the Pharisees and the tax collector, O God, give us the grace of the Pharisee humbler from
Great Holy Week: Good Friday - Calvary
On Holy Thursday we followed Jesus into the upper room. Today, on Good Friday (49), we will follow him to Calvary. We will not follow him
Sunday of the Adoration of the Holy Cross (Third Sunday of Lent)
In the middle of Lent, the Church sets up before us the Cross of Christ. It does this twice more a year, on September 14 and August 1, marking the
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04- Galatians 6:11-18 - Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
Text: 11 Behold, with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand! 12 All who want to make an appearance in the body,
Pride in the cross
The cross occupies a special place in the thought and theology of Saint Paul the Apostle. He fiercely defends the cross, considering it the fate of the enemies of the cross