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 …
“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” — St Augustine . . #theholybible #stmark #preachtheword #ourlight #ourpath #ourway #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“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 …
“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
“We may always rejoice, if we will only keep our head a little raised above the flood of human things” – St. John Chrysostom . “Knowledge of their Maker is for men the only really happy and blessed life.” -St. Athanasius . . #joy #praise #holy50days #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
