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Who is He? He is the Word of Truth, the Word of non-corruption, who renews man, by bringing him back to the truth. He is the (goad) that provokes to salvation, He is the One who destroys perdition, and drives away death. He builds the temple of God in men, and makes them His dwelling place. The sick are in need of a Savior. The lost need a guide. The blind are in need of someone to lead them to light. The thirsty need the living fountain, from which, if someone drinks, one will never thirst. The dead need life. The sheep are in need of a shepherd. And the children need a teacher. All humanity is in need of Jesus! – St. Clement of Alexandria . . #dailyreadings #copticorthodox #orthodoxy #Christ #saviour #thelivingword

Who is He? He is the Word of Truth, the Word of non-corruption, who renews man, by bringing him back …

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“Blessed be that Child, Who gladdened Bethlehem today! Thanks to Him Who sent His Heir, that by Him He might draw us to Himself, yea make us heirs with Him! Blessed be the Shepherd Who became a Lamb for our reconcilement!” – St. Ephraim the Syrian #copticorthodox #coptic #dailyreading #christmas #christ #christianity

“Blessed be that Child, Who gladdened Bethlehem today! Thanks to Him Who sent His Heir, that by Him He might …

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“People don’t need to hear about Christ any more, they have heard enough. They rather need to see Christ in us.” – Fr. Bishoy Kamel #christ #dailyreading #coptic #copticorthodox #christianity

“People don’t need to hear about Christ any more, they have heard enough. They rather need to see Christ in …

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“The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He’s terrified when we’re humble and truly love God. He runs away when we sign the Cross.” ~ St. Anthony the Great #martyrs #dailyreading #cross #faith #coptic #copticorthodox #church #christ

“The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He’s terrified when we’re humble and truly love …

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“As Jonah spent three days and nights in the belly of the fish and was delivered up ‎sound again, all of us who have passed through the three stages of our present life on earth–the ‎beginning, middle, and end– rise again. For our present time consists of three intervals: the past, ‎the future, and the present. Thus, the Lord spent three days in the earth as a symbol to teach us ‎clearly that our resurrection shall take place after these intervals of time have been fulfilled. Our ‎resurrection shall be the beginning of the future age and the end of this. In that age, there is ‎neither past nor future, but only the present. ‎ Moreover, Jonah having spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, was ‎not destroyed by his flesh being dissolved, as is the case with that natural decomposition which ‎takes place in the belly, in the case of those meats which enter into it, on account of the greater ‎heat in the liquids, that it might be shown that these bodies of ours may remain undestroyed. For ‎consider that God had images of Himself made as of gold, that is of a purer spiritual substance, ‎as the angels; and others of clay or brass, as ourselves. He united the soul which was made in ‎the image of God to that which was earthy. As, then, we must here honor all the images of a king, ‎on account of the form which is in them, so also it is incredible that we who are the images of God ‎should be altogether destroyed as being without honor. Whence also the Word descended into ‎our world, and was incarnate of our body, in order that, having fashioned it to a more divine ‎image, He might raise it incorrupt, although it had been dissolved by time. And, indeed, when we ‎trace out the dispensation which was figuratively set forth by the prophet, we shall find the whole ‎discourse visibly extending to this.” ~ St Methodius #jonah #jonahsfast #christ #dailyreadings

“As Jonah spent three days and nights in the belly of the fish and was delivered up ‎sound again, all …

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