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It is what you must expect and be ready to receive with patience and even with joy when you suffer as Christ did before you and for his sake: this is the way to eternal happiness in heaven. – George Leo Haydock #orthodoxy #churchfathers #church #coptic

‘ ‘ It is what you must expect and be ready to receive with patience, and even with joy, when you suffer as Christ did before you, and for his sake: this is the way to eternal happiness in heaven.’ – George Leo Haydock #orthodoxy #churchfathers #church #coptic

‘ ‘ It is what you must expect and be ready to receive with patience, and even with joy, when you suffer as Christ did before you, and for his sake: this is the way to eternal happiness in heaven.’ – George Leo Haydock #orthodoxy #churchfathers #church #coptic

Those enemies wounded St Paul with stones: there is a wounding with words even worse than stones. What then must we do? The same that he did: he did not hate those who cast stones at him but after they had dragged him out he entered again into their city to be a benefactor to those who had done him such wrongs. If you also endure him who harshly insults you and has done you wrongs then you have too been stoned. Do not say “I have done him no injury.” For what injury had Paul done that he should

Those enemies wounded St Paul with stones: there is a wounding with words, even worse than stones. What then must we do? The same that he did: he did not hate those who cast stones at him, but after they had dragged him out, he entered again into their city, to be a benefactor to those who had done him such wrongs. If you also endure him who harshly insults you, and has done you wrongs, then you have too been stoned. Do not say, “I have done him no injury.” For what injury had Paul done, that he should be stoned? He was announcing a Kingdom, he was bringing men away from error, and “In the very city in which they received this reverence, in the same were they thus terribly ill treated” -St. John Chrysostom . . #dailyreadings #copticorthodox #orthodoxy #loveyourenemies

Those enemies wounded St Paul with stones: there is a wounding with words, even worse than stones. What then must we do? The same that he did: he did not hate those who cast stones at him, but after they had dragged him out, he entered again into their city, to be a benefactor to …

The Holy Spirit: “The Spirit searches all things (1 Cor. 2.10) He will teach you all things (John 14.26) He blows where (He) wishes and where (He) goes (John 3.8) Guides (Ps. 142) Speaks (Acts 13.2) Sends (Acts 13.4) Separates (Acts 13.2) Inspires (John 16) Brings to remembrance 1 Lect. Catech. 16.13-14. 2 Cf. Hom. On 1Tim. Hom. 1.1. 578 (John 14.26) Gives life (John 6.63) or rather is the very Light and Life; That makes Temples (1 Cor. 3.16) Deifies us 1 (1 Cor. 3.16) Guides you into all truth

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It is what you must expect and be ready to receive with patience and even with joy when you suffer as Christ did before you and for his sake: this is the way to eternal happiness in heaven. – George Leo Haydock #orthodoxy #churchfathers #church #coptic

‘ ‘ It is what you must expect and be ready to receive with patience, and even with joy, when you suffer as Christ did before you, and for his sake: this is the way to eternal happiness in heaven.’ – George Leo Haydock #orthodoxy #churchfathers #church #coptic

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