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From the third hour of Tuesday Eve of the Holy Pascha God asks us in Malachi “I have loved you says the Lord…If then I am the Father, where is My reverence?” “You offer me defiled food on My Altar.” God is gently reminding us that through our sin we have dishonored Him. Further, in the Gospel, Christ expresses His willingness to gather us, but in our disobedience we have rejected his continued efforts. Yet the Church again, reminds us that in spite of our disobedience have to hope in God. ‘Having left them, as being unworthy, he says that when the time of his passion has arrived, he will then barely be seen by them. Then again he went up to Jerusalem and entered amidst praises, and at that very time endured his saving passion in our behalf, that by suffering he might save and renew to incorruption the inhabitants of the earth.’ St Cyril of Alexandria #coptic #orthodoxy #holyweek #tuesdayeve #holy #pascha

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Monday of the Holy Pascha Week ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ As Adam and Eve covered their sin with the fig tree, Christ rebukes the fig tree to tell us we can no longer cover our sins with a cloak of hypocrisy. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “The fig tree with its broad leaves represents the wide road. Also it reminds us of the sin which Adam tried to cover with its leaves.” – St John Chrysostom ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Adorn yourselves with the virtue so we will not experience the wrath of God, but his mercy. We cannot be hypocritical. Even our churches cannot have good and bad fruits.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #coptic #orthodox #holyweek #figtree #pascha #orthodoxy #holymonday

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Monday of the Holy Pascha Week ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ As Adam and Eve covered their sin with the fig tree, Christ rebukes the fig tree to tell us we can no longer cover our sins with a cloak of hypocrisy. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “The fig tree with its broad leaves represents the wide road. Also it reminds us of the sin which Adam tried to cover with its leaves.” – St John Chrysostom ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Adorn yourselves with the virtue so we will not experience the wrath of God, but his mercy. We cannot be hypocritical. Even our churches cannot have good and bad fruits.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #coptic #orthodox #holyweek #figtree #pascha #orthodoxy #holymonday

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Monday of the Holy Pascha Week ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ As Adam and Eve covered their sin with the fig tree, Christ rebukes the fig tree to tell us we can no longer cover our sins with a cloak of hypocrisy. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “The fig tree with its broad leaves represents the wide road. Also it reminds us of the sin which Adam tried to cover with its leaves.” – St John Chrysostom ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Adorn yourselves with the virtue so we will not experience the wrath of God, but his mercy. We cannot be hypocritical. Even our churches cannot have good and bad fruits.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #coptic #orthodox #holyweek #figtree #pascha #orthodoxy #holymonday

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Happy Palm Sunday ⁣🌿 ⁣ “Palm Sunday is the Day where the Kingdom of the Earth with its Palms, the Kingdom of Animals with the Donkey and the Kingdom of Men with their hymns and procession are all United in Christ, welcoming him into Jerusalem” – H.H. Pope Tawadros II⁣ ⁣ #coptic #palmsunday #palmsunday🌿 #palms #joy #hosanna #jesus #copticpascha #holyweek #palmbranches

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