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Since God is Love, what else do we have to be afraid of? God is the God of Providence: everything that happens is either because God permitted it to happen or God made it to happen, but all because God is Love. Everything that happens to us is because God loves us, and all happen for our good, even the seemingly evil. And because God loves us, nothing that happens to us can overwhelm us. – St Augustine . #Love #GodIsLove #HeLovesUs #GiveThanks #Psalms #DailyReadings #CopticOrthodox #Coptic #Orthodox

Since God is Love, what else do we have to be afraid of? God is the God of Providence: everything …

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The apostle‘s words show with the utmost clarity that there will be a resurrection of the dead when Christ comes; and assuredly the purpose of his coming will be to judge the living and the dead. Lazarus was dead to men who were unable to raise him up; for the Lord roused him from the tomb with such ease as you would not rouse a sleeping person from his bed. – St. Augustine . #TheSecondComing #JudgmentDay #AriseFromSleep #Believe #Coptic #Orthodox #CopticOrthodox #Pascha #DailyReadings

The apostle‘s words show with the utmost clarity that there will be a resurrection of the dead when Christ comes; …

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If we wish to understand the power of Christ’s blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. Sacrifice a lamb without blemish, commanded Moses, and sprinkle its blood on your doors. If we were to ask him what he meant, and how the blood of an irrational beast could possibly save men endowed with reason, his answer would be that the saving power lies not in the blood itself, but in the fact that it is a sign of the Lord’s blood. In those days, when the destroying angel saw the blood on the doors he did not dare to enter, so how much less will the devil approach now when he sees, not that figurative blood on the doors, but the true blood on the lips of believers, the doors of the temple of Christ. – St John Chrysostom . #HolyWeek #GoodFriday #Pascha #TheCross #ThePowerOfChristsBlood #CopticOrthodox #Orthodox #Coptic

If we wish to understand the power of Christ’s blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its …

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Be confident that the fear of God is the path that leads to love. – Pope Shenouda . #FearGod #Coptic #Orthodox #Blessed #WeAreBlessed #FearTheLord #Fear #CopticOrthodox #HolyWeek #Pascha

Be confident that the fear of God is the path that leads to love. – Pope Shenouda . #FearGod #Coptic …

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“And I tell you”, He says, “you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.‘” What does this mean? The Lord withdrew from Jerusalem and left as unworthy of his presence those who said, “Get away from here”. And after he had walked about Judea and saved many and performed miracles which no words can adequately describe, he returned again to Jerusalem. It was then that he sat upon a colt of a donkey, while vast multitudes and young children, holding up branches of palm trees, went before him, praising him and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”. – Cyril of Alexandria . #BlessedIsHe #WhoComesInTheNameOfTheLord #Blessed #DailyReadings #CopticOrthodox #Luke #BlessedIsHe #Orthodox #Coptic #HosannaInTheHighest #Hosanna

“And I tell you”, He says, “you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he that comes in …

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