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“Our life and our death is with our neighbour. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalise our brother, we have sinned against Christ.” St. Anthony the Great #apostlesfast #coptic #orthodox #copticorthodox #love #neighbour #churchfathers

“Our life and our death is with our neighbour. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if …

“This rejoicing is not separable from grief for indeed it is rather deeply connected with grief. The one who grieves for his own wrongdoing and confesses it is joyful. Alternatively it is possible to grieve for ones own sins but rejoice in Christ. On this account he says Rejoice in the Lord. For this is nothing if you have received a life worthy of rejoicing. He is right to repeat himself. For since the events are naturally grievous it is through the repetition that he shows that in all cases one should rejoice.” – St. John Chrysostom #ApostlesFast #Rejoice #RejoiceInTheLord #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #ChurchFathers

“This rejoicing is not separable from grief, for indeed it is rather deeply connected with grief. The one who grieves for his own wrongdoing and confesses it is joyful. Alternatively it is possible to grieve for one’s own sins but rejoice in Christ…. On this account he says “Rejoice in the Lord.” For this is nothing if you have received a life worthy of rejoicing…. He is right to repeat himself. For since the events are naturally grievous, it is through the repetition that he shows that in all cases one should rejoice.” – St. John Chrysostom #ApostlesFast #Rejoice #RejoiceInTheLord #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #ChurchFathers

“This rejoicing is not separable from grief, for indeed it is rather deeply connected with grief. The one who grieves …

The Scared Bride

I’M SCARED! Once I asked a young girl: Why you do not like to confess? She replied that she used …

“Bear with patience everything that is thrown at you secure in the knowledge that it is then in great trials that you are most in the mind of God.” – St. Basil the Great #coptic #orthodox #orthodoxy #patience #pentecost #dailyreadings