If you're ever concerned about these dreams, then the first thing to do is to pray for guidance. You never know what wonderous works God might choose to perform through you...it's just a question of whether you are willing to let Him :)
Matthew
His Grace's talk was mostly centred on how to restore relationships with friends, and how to know when to leave those friends if your efforts to help them are in vain. I don't want to try and summarise his talk for fear of distorting his words, but …
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look i personally think that its really important to stick to ur friends and help them out... but if it happens for a split of a second that u even think about what they'r say…
Thankyou everyone for your comments, you've really touched me! I do read contemplative books, particularly those by HH Pope Shenouda and they are wonderful...but sometimes I just feel like this contemplation "isn't meant for me". I don't know how to…
I would say that some people are graced with the gift of foresight (for example, Pope Kyrollos). The idea of being able to see future events isn't exactly foreign to us...there's many examples in the Bible of God revealing pieces of future events to…
Lol sorry, I wasn't clear. What I meant is that there's so many different feelings I have about it that I can't express it in words :P I like that "armour of the spirit" though, very nice.
There's one line in the Liturgy of St Gregory that always m…
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A priest told me that if I am starting to have an intercessor
Take Virgin Mary and then as you go God will guide you
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I'd go with this. No matter who your saint is…
Whether this person goes to church or not is irrelevant I think. He/she came here to ask a question and we are simply clarifying our church's position. Labelling them as "pointless" isn't the right way to bring this person to our faith...we should b…
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7. Heh, And I agree with the rest. You don't need anyone praying for you but yourself.
Here, Let me tell you a good formula for praying in the morning that I learned a few …
What often happens is the opposite: we demand that people "sin no more" in order for us to accept them...i wonder what your thoughts are!
You make a very good point here, I guess you could file this under "he who is forgiven much, loves much". But i…
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Are you guys suggesting that preaching wouldn't help lead me to my salvation?
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No, I would say the exact opposite, read my previous post again. We are commanded to prea…
There's a very nice saying by St Francis of Assisi, "always preach the gospel and, if necessary, use words". When preaching Christianity, we should first and foremost be a living gospel. By being model Christians and good reflections of Christ, we a…
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i disagreee with the fact that being born homo is true.
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Haha I think you'll find that its very hard to disagree with a fact :P
I like the part about being born likin…
Haha, I think the same applies to 99% of Freudian psychology :P Then again, I don't think I can say that with any real conviction seeing as I've never really studied psychology in any great detail, but what I do know of Freud I don't really agree wi…
Thankyou for the link Mina, enjoyed reading it but I must admit that I'm a bit skeptical of some of those statistics in that article.
the claim to be born "gay" is fully, without question wrong/incorrect. who ever have told you that is an idiot who…
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This post is not out of spite, I'm asking genuine questions, so please don't go all defensive on me. If this 'issue' bothers you then leave the topic...Frankly i know a few…
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This is a forum isn't it? To stimulate discussion I'm assuming thats why your here, correct?
maybe someone can shed some light on the issue? Does anyone know why the Chur…
You'll notice that the person in the video was not able to offer a single refutation of Pope Shenouda's words. And also, the Coptic Church is not intolerant to homosexuals, but it condemns homosexual acts and wishes that all those falling in this si…
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You don't necessarily have to do it in public infront of everyone to show off how "humble" you are, do whatever you feel is comfortable, God knows the heart ;)
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Could…
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OMg lol i neva new that before. i thught it was juss somethin ppl do lol.
But, is it wrong to not do that. Because i dont do that=/
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I don't think it…
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But God can also take away things if He wills; His power is limitless. When we thank God for taking things away, we also thank Him for taking away the things we couldn't norm…
This might help:
On 17 Thoout, the Church commemorates the discovery of the Holy Cross, the cross on which Christ was crucified, by Queen Helen - the mother of Emperor Constantine. It was on this day that she ordered the Cross to be dug from under …