Contemplations – Page 399 – Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K.

He had previously shown us that judging others is utterly wicked and dangerous. It causes final condemnation. Do not judge, He said, and you shall not be judged.Do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned. By conclusive arguments, he persuades us to avoid the very wish of judging others. Deliver yourself first from your great crimes and your rebellious passions, and then you may set him right who is guilty of only minor offences.- Cyril of Alexandria .#DailyReadings #CopticOrthodox #Judge #DontCondemn #DontJudge #Orthodox #Coptic

He had previously shown us that judging others is utterly wicked and dangerous. It causes final condemnation. Do not judge, He said, and you shall not be judged.Do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned. By conclusive arguments, he persuades us to avoid the very wish of judging others. Deliver yourself first from your great crimes and your rebellious passions, and then you may set him right who is guilty of only minor offences.- Cyril of Alexandria .#DailyReadings #CopticOrthodox #Judge #DontCondemn #DontJudge #Orthodox #Coptic

Mar 3, 2017

“Blessed is he who in his heart constantly asks for you. From him runs life, so he be blessed! If you are sorrowful in your pleadings, you will rejoice in his presence! If you suffer so as to be able to see him with your tears and tribulations, then he will manifest his beauty inside you, and you will thus forget your sorrows.” St. John Saba #cometoChrist #Hegivesrest #Lent #fasting #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“Blessed is he who in his heart constantly asks for you. From him runs life, so he be blessed! If you are sorrowful in your pleadings, you will rejoice in his presence! If you suffer so as to be able to see him with your tears and tribulations, then he will manifest his beauty inside you, and you will thus forget your sorrows.” St. John Saba #cometoChrist #Hegivesrest #Lent #fasting #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

Mar 2, 2017

Now I realize that I am not just one among billions! I am the object of Your love and personal care! My sin cast me on the road, like a discarded trash! No one to look at me or ask about me! No one to carry me out of the mud of the road and away of its risks! You passed by me and looked at me with Your divine eyes! I felt the warmth of love, I heard You whispering in my ears: “Your time is the time of love.” You carried me on Your divine arms; You cleansed…

Now I realize that I am not just one among billions! I am the object of Your love and personal care! My sin cast me on the road, like a discarded trash! No one to look at me or ask about me! No one to carry me out of the mud of the road and away of its risks! You passed by me and looked at me with Your divine eyes! I felt the warmth of love, I heard You whispering in my ears: “Your time is the time of love.” You carried me on Your divine arms; You cleansed…

Mar 1, 2017

Do you deny yourself? Look at whom you have given what you denied yourself? How many poor got fulfilled by the food which you denied yourself? St Augustine..#givecheerfully #fastpraygive #considerthepoor #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings #lent

Do you deny yourself? Look at whom you have given what you denied yourself? How many poor got fulfilled by the food which you denied yourself? St Augustine..#givecheerfully #fastpraygive #considerthepoor #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings #lent

Feb 28, 2017

Moses said, ‘Who am I to go before Pharaoh?’ Although I have a royal title, I will not be received by him. And now that I do the work of a simple shepherd, who will allow me to go before Pharaoh? And even if I were let in, what importance would he see in me to believe my words. – Ephrem the Syrian on the modesty of Moses..#CopticOrthodox #DailyReadings #Easter #Moses #Exodus #IAm #Orthodox #Coptic

Moses said, ‘Who am I to go before Pharaoh?’ Although I have a royal title, I will not be received by him. And now that I do the work of a simple shepherd, who will allow me to go before Pharaoh? And even if I were let in, what importance would he see in me to believe my words. – Ephrem the Syrian on the modesty of Moses..#CopticOrthodox #DailyReadings #Easter #Moses #Exodus #IAm #Orthodox #Coptic

Feb 27, 2017

“For indeed He came to do away with the old things, and to call us to a greater country. Therefore He does all, to deliver us from things unnecessary, and from our affection for the earth…. For we were not born for this end, that we should eat and drink and be clothed, but that we might please God, and attain unto the good things to come. Therefore as things here are secondary in our labor, so also in our prayers let them be secondary.”St John Chrysostom #SeekGod #DoNotbeAnxious #TreasureinHeaven #SundayoftheTreasures #Lent #fasting #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“For indeed He came to do away with the old things, and to call us to a greater country. Therefore He does all, to deliver us from things unnecessary, and from our affection for the earth…. For we were not born for this end, that we should eat and drink and be clothed, but that we might please God, and attain unto the good things to come. Therefore as things here are secondary in our labor, so also in our prayers let them be secondary.”St John Chrysostom #SeekGod #DoNotbeAnxious #TreasureinHeaven #SundayoftheTreasures #Lent #fasting #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

Feb 26, 2017