Contemplations – Page 340 – Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K.

“The Lord knew that vanity may spring from every good thing, and therefore bids us root out the bramble of vain-gloriousness which springs in the good soil, that it choke not the fruit of fasting. For though it cannot be that fasting should not be discovered in any one, yet is it better that fasting should show you, than that you should show your fasting. If then he who fasts, and makes himself of sad countenance, is a hypocrite, how much more wicked is he who does not fast, yet assumes a fictitious paleness offace as a token of fasting.”…

“The Lord knew that vanity may spring from every good thing, and therefore bids us root out the bramble of vain-gloriousness which springs in the good soil, that it choke not the fruit of fasting. For though it cannot be that fasting should not be discovered in any one, yet is it better that fasting should show you, than that you should show your fasting. If then he who fasts, and makes himself of sad countenance, is a hypocrite, how much more wicked is he who does not fast, yet assumes a fictitious paleness offace as a token of fasting.”…

Feb 11, 2018

“It is befitting of the divine temple to have incense of the sweetest fragrance. Every virtue is a mental incense, well received by the God of all.” – St. Cyril the Great #templeofGod #HeDwellsInsideYou #HeWalksAmongUs #HisPeople #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“It is befitting of the divine temple to have incense of the sweetest fragrance. Every virtue is a mental incense, well received by the God of all.” – St. Cyril the Great #templeofGod #HeDwellsInsideYou #HeWalksAmongUs #HisPeople #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

Feb 10, 2018

What keeps you from giving now? Isn’t the poor man there? Aren’t your own warehouses full? Isn’t the reward promised? The command is clear: the hungry man is dying now, the naked man is freezing now, the man in debt is beaten now – and you want to wait until tomorrow? “I’m not doing any harm,” you say. “I just want to keep what I own, that’s all.” You own? … You are like someone who sits down in a theater and keeps everyone else away, saying that what is there for everyone’s use is his own … If everyone…

What keeps you from giving now? Isn’t the poor man there? Aren’t your own warehouses full? Isn’t the reward promised? The command is clear: the hungry man is dying now, the naked man is freezing now, the man in debt is beaten now – and you want to wait until tomorrow? “I’m not doing any harm,” you say. “I just want to keep what I own, that’s all.” You own? … You are like someone who sits down in a theater and keeps everyone else away, saying that what is there for everyone’s use is his own … If everyone…

Feb 9, 2018

“We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.” St Gregory the Theologian #preaching #KingdomofGod #Salvation #Godiswithus #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.” St Gregory the Theologian #preaching #KingdomofGod #Salvation #Godiswithus #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

Feb 8, 2018

If you make a request to God, trust that in the moment in which He heard you He has started to act for your sake, even before you ask- H.H Pope Shenouda lll . . #hehears #helistens #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodoxy #copticorthodox

If you make a request to God, trust that in the moment in which He heard you He has started to act for your sake, even before you ask- H.H Pope Shenouda lll . . #hehears #helistens #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodoxy #copticorthodox

Feb 7, 2018

Life is time and whoever wastes time wastes life- H.H Pope Shenouda lll . . #time #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodoxy #copticorthodox

Life is time and whoever wastes time wastes life- H.H Pope Shenouda lll . . #time #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodoxy #copticorthodox

Feb 6, 2018