Let God be your goal and proceed toward Him step by step. You definitely cannot start your spiritual life being perfect and you cannot start it by having God become everything to you. However, start by knowing and loving God and grow in this knowledge and love. Give to God from your heart and grow …
A believer once asked His Holiness, “The idea of atheism contends with me, and I struggle against it, but it returns with doubts in the existence of God. Please help me to confirm my faith: I am afraid that these doubts will prevail against my faith.” His Holiness replied… This is a well-known battle waged …
I want to tell you now about Coptic monasticism. Egypt is considered the motherland of monasticism. The first monk in the whole world was St. Anthony, a Copt from Upper Egypt. He was born in the year 251 and departed in the year 356; he lived 105 years. During this period he established monasticism and …
Before speaking on this subject, I wish to say that the three other gospels by St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke are called the “synoptic gospels”, which means gospels of one vision and similarity. But St. John’s gospel is a unique gospel. The first gospel that was written was the gospel of St. Mark. …
Love is to be directed first to God If we wish to understand love in its true scriptural foundations, we must set before us (and understand) the following truth: Love should be directed to God, before anyone or anything else This is what God revealed to us in the Book of Deutoronomy: “…” (Duet 6:5) …
