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“Whereas this time is uncertain and always in prospect, we may advance day by day as if summoned, reaching forward to the things before us and forgetting the things behind.” – St. Athansius the Apostolic#watchandpray #beready #reachforward #forgetwhatisbehind #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“Whereas this time is uncertain and always in prospect, we may advance day by day as if summoned, reaching forward …

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“and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.” – Luke 12:36 . “It is appropriate for us to look forward to Christ’s second coming from heaven; for He will come in the Father’s glory with the saintly angels. Christ will come as if from a banquet; it will be clearly manifested that God dwells as if in feasts and weddings- a befitting thing for Him. There is no sorrow whatsoever in heaven above; since there is nothing at all to grieve for in the nature above the fantasies, and that is not affected by anything.” – St Cyril the Great #beready #thebridegroomisknocking #secondcoming #prepared #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when …

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