His Grace Bishop Youssef: A student’s day schedule can be overwhelmingly packed with lectures to attend, people to meet, studying, and decisions to make. If students do not learn how to mange their time properly, they can be in trouble. Everyday, we must desire and seek the will and guidance of God. Making good decisions, …
His Grace Bishop Mousa: It is important first to look at yourself. Are you egocentric and unwilling to let your parents share in your life? This is surely not correct because you are in need of your parents’ advice and guidance, and you cannot rely on your own wisdom. These days we may feel that …
His Grace Bishop Youssef: What you are doing is playing with fire. Examine where this relationship is leading you. You have started as regular friends; then you love each other ‘as friends’; then you have become ‘very close’ that you sometimes ‘hug’. Can you see the trend? The next is going to be a little …
The calendar of the Coptic Orthodox church begins with the beginning of the terrible reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in 284 A.D. During his time, Christians in Egypt were tortured, massacred, and martyred in countless numbers. For early Coptic Christians, this was the “Era of the Martyrs.” As a result, the Copts based their …
This is an ancient custom, which dates to the early Church. St. Cyril of Jerusalem mentions in his lectures to catechumens: Let men be with men, and women with women. For now I need the example of Noah’s ark: in which were Noah and his sons, and his wife and his sons’ wives. For though the ark …
