+H.H. Pope Shenouda III discussed this in so many of his sermons.
Here is a guiding start: stmarkla.org/download > Arabic Sermons > His Holiness Pope Shenouda III
Specifically, please take time to listen to (but not limited to):
- 1980 > B…
+[quote author=✞Stavroforos✞ link=topic=13183.msg155218#msg155218 date=1336036741]
I have lost a lot of my faith and I don't know how to get it back. [/quote]
Ask God for faith in Him.
[quote author=✞Stavroforos✞ link=topic=13183.msg155218#msg1552…
Fear not, for I am with you." - Isaiah 43:5
Stavroforos, God heard you before you cried out to Him.
God's silence is Him working in a hidden way/s.
Wait patiently for God in faith. Know that God created infinite beings, creatures and powers from …
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"...that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a dea…
+[quote author=Ioannes link=topic=13062.msg153491#msg153491 date=1332393195]
The miracle of Pope Shenouda III is that he endured while in physical ailment for a long time, shepherding his church in one of the most turbulent times, while remaining ve…
+Keep the Psalms and the Psalms will keep you - H.H. Pope Shenouda III
Pray to God with them. Read them to God from your heart.
They have Truth, Life and the Spirit of God in them (as with all of God's Word).
"You are already clean because of the …
+[quote author=✞ GoDLovesME ✞ link=topic=12965.msg152618#msg152618 date=1330480033]
ok... but i have everything that could make the person happy and i never became a happy person.... im not satisfied with anything i always feel like im missing somet…
+Boston el Rohban in English:
http://www.orthodoxbookstore.org/paradiseoftheholyfathers-part1.aspx
http://www.orthodoxbookstore.org/theparadiseoftheholyfathersvolume2.aspx
Light reading: www.stmaryscopticorthodox.ca/content/books/spirituality.pdf
+Why didn't God wait a couple of hours more for the thief on the left hand? What made the right hand thief repent and not the left?
What stopped the left hand thief from repenting, was his rejection of the clear Truth crucified before him. When a hu…
+ :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXAJlRUpD4&feature=plcp&context=C344df3fUDOEgsToPDskK_g5m8lFjN8VyPF2q_IhOB
A short excerpt with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9HEnQ-MX0&feature=plcp&context=C35bc2d5UDOEgsTo…
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"John was great in that he was the son of mountains, who was brought up in the life of abnegation and asceticism. He lived all his life in the deserts "till the day of his manifestation to Israel", growing and becoming "strong in spirit" (Luke 1:8…
+[quote author=Christs' servant link=topic=12728.msg149518#msg149518 date=1324896207]
If you do find any of their sayings please share, I can't seem to find any :( [/quote]
A certain brother asked Abba Poeman saying, "What do these words mean, 'If …
+PDF files of the Agpeya in English, Coptic and Arabic in three columns.
http://www.copticplace.com/Prayers/Arabic/Agpya.html
Please keep us in your prayers Father.
[quote author=Just Be Me link=topic=12674.msg149010#msg149010 date=1323816067]
Every time I want to though, I feel paralyzed and I know it is the envy of the devil.
I want to change, but I have these thoughts in my head that tear me up on the insid…
+ Priests are overflowing with the abundant grace, and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. They are an enormous blessing, whether we see it or not. May God protect them.
To focus on one's sins will make us too busy to look at another…
+Contemplations on the symbols of the Ever-Virgin Mother, Saint Mary, in the Kiahk Praises, titled "Ten Strings." These are arranged in a couple of episodes. I guess it prepares our Spirits for the blessed month of Kiahk.
Ten Strings
http://www.you…
+There are a few Orthodox sources related to the Orthodox stance on Stem-cell research.
On Cloning and Stem-Cell Research by H.G. Bishop Moussa
http://www.coptichymns.net/module-library-viewpub-tid-1-pid-284.html
The Church's Perspective on Stem …
+Amen!
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God." - 1 Corinthians 2:12
"...to be spiritually minded is life and peace." - Romans 8:6
[quote author=user157 link=topic=12599.msg148038#msg148038 date=1322434169]
Thanks I lovejesus. I will give serious thought to what you have said
If someoe people do not want to change how will praying for them make any difference?
The only thing I …
+user157, the answers are simple
[quote author=user157 link=topic=12599.msg147981#msg147981 date=1322195743]
Why does St Paul instruct us to pray for all men, saying God desires the salvation of all?
Does that mean people will not be saved without…
+[quote author=Coptic Soldier link=topic=12595.msg147896#msg147896 date=1322040571]
There is absolutely differences and degrees of sin, and I think if we look at hell as self imposed (I.e. Creatures cast themselves into hell, not God casting a creat…
+[quote author=mnc_hnn link=topic=12503.msg147869#msg147869 date=1321995421]
i hope i die soon
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Renew your thoughts. If a thought comes to you or you formulate those thoughts from circumstances, change it.
Instead of saying 'I hope I die so…
+"And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority. " (…
[quote author=benjaminjoshua23 link=topic=12573.msg147569#msg147569 date=1321411148]
then make one big mistake and feel as though i ruined all my hard work and i have to start over
and should i feel this sense of pure loss like i lost all my hard w…
[quote author=mabsoota link=topic=12527.msg147502#msg147502 date=1321298844]
yeah, like if yr wife and kids were pagans and gave u the chance to re-convert to paganism or be thrown out of the house for being a Christian, then u would be thrown out o…
[quote author=ForeverYours link=topic=12550.msg147253#msg147253 date=1320883903]
well, in a more practical sense, aren't we sometimes demon posssessed when we continually sin or give into the devil's will. we kinda become puppets of the devil.
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