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“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” – Saint Augustine . . #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodoxy #holy50

“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” – Saint Augustine . . #dailyreadings …

Your example is now the life of St Mary, from which shines forth, as from a mirror, all the beauty of Chastity and the pattern of every virtue – St Ambrose . . She lived a life of abandonment, not protesting, not resisting, not objecting but quietly abandoning to the will of God, without discussion – H.H Pope Shenouda lll . #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox #commemorationofourmothersbirth #blessedvirginstmary #whoborethesaviour #richinvirtue

Your example is now the life of St Mary, from which shines forth, as from a mirror, all the beauty …

“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” — St Augustine . . #theholybible #stmark #preachtheword #ourlight #ourpath #ourway #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” — St Augustine . . #theholybible #stmark #preachtheword #ourlight #ourpath #ourway #dailyreadings …

“Lord, turn Thou our faces away from the world by the desire of Thee, that we may see it for what it is, and no longer believe in a shadow as in truth. Fashion us anew, O Lord, and renew and give our mind zeal before death, so that in the hour of our departure we may know the purpose of our entrance and departure from this world. And so, having finished that work for which Thy will first called us to come into this life, may we then hope, with our mind full of confidence, to receive those great things which, according to the Scriptures’ promise, Thy love hath prepared in the second, new creation, things the remembrance of which is guarded in the faith of Thy mysteries.” St Isaac the Syrian #WillofGod #oursalvation #HolyFifty #Christisrisen #TrulyHeisrisen #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“Lord, turn Thou our faces away from the world by the desire of Thee, that we may see it for …

“The Son only and truly is the bread of life. Those who have communion in Him once and are combined with Him in some manner through their communion with Him are shown to be above the bonds of death itself.” – St. Cyril the Great #breadoflife #communion #victory #ChristIsRisen #TrulyHeIsRisen #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“The Son only and truly is the bread of life. Those who have communion in Him once and are combined …