childrenoflight Archives • Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K.

“If then you have become the throne of God, and the Heavenly Charioteer has seated Himself within you, and your soul is entirely transformed into a spiritual eye, and is made into light; if you too are nourished with the heavenly food of that Spirit and have drunk of the Living Water, and have put on the secret garment of light – if your inward being has experienced all these things and is established in rich unshakable faith, then you are living the Eternal Life, and your soul even in this present time rests with Christ.”St Macarius the Great#Lightoftheworld #childrenofGod #childrenoflight #willofGod #holiness #kiahk #NewYear #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“If then you have become the throne of God, and the Heavenly Charioteer has seated Himself within you, and your …

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“If you do good, you must do it only for God. For this reason you must pay no attention to the ingratitude of people. Expect a reward not here, but from the Lord in heaven. If you expect it here — it will be in vain and you will endure deprivation.” – St. Ambrose . #ChildrenOfLight #WalkAsChildren #AcceptableToTheLord #PleaseTheLord #DoItForGod #Ephesians #DailyReadings #Coptic #Orthodox #CopticOrthodox

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Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen. – Luke 24:51-53 . . . “Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all “fullness of blessing,” both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.” – St. Basil the Great . . . #CopticOrthodox #Coptic #DailyReadings #HolySpirit #FeastOfAscension #ChildrenOfLight

Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. …

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