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“speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” Ephesians 5:19,20 . “What state can be more blessed than to imitate on earth the choruses of Angels?—to begin the day with prayer, and honour our Maker with hymns and songs?—as the day brightens, to betake ourselves, with prayer attending on it throughout, to our labours, and to sweeten our work with hymns, as if with salt? Soothing hymns compose the mind to a cheerful and calm state.” St Basil the Great #Hymns #praise #thanksgiving #spiritualsongs #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

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“Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone?” Luke 20:17 . “This rejected stone, thrown away out of the city, has come to be the cornerstone on which the church is founded, that embraces Jewish members as well as Gentile ones. They assemble together, and unite as if on a cornerstone.” Father Tadros Yacoub Malaty #thechiefcornerstone #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

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“But not a hair of your head shall be lost.” – Luke 21:18 . “We should have no doubt that our mortal flesh also will rise again at the end of the world…. This is the Christian faith. This is the Catholic faith. This is the apostolic faith. Believe Christ when he says, “Not a hair of your head shall perish.” Putting aside all unbelief, consider how valuable you are. How can our Redeemer despise any person when he cannot despise a hair of that person’s head? How are we going to doubt that he intends to give eternal life to our soul and body? He took on a soul and body in which to die for us, which he laid down for us when he died and which he took up again that we might not fear death.” – St. Augustine #notahairofyourheadshallbelost #putasideunbelief #donotfeardeath #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

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“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘ No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” -Matthew‬ ‭25 : 1-13‬ ‭ . This parable admonishes us to remain diligent in almsgiving. It counsels us to help our neighbor by every means available to us, since it is impossible to be saved in any other way…. For nothing is more sullied than virginity without mercy … What was the profit of virginity, when they saw not the Bridegroom? Even when they knocked at the door, they did not obtain; instead, they heard the fearful saying, “Depart, I know you not”. When he said this, nothing else but hell is left, and that intolerable punishment…. This parable was spoken with respect to mercy in almsgiving … It is also that we might learn how close Christ is joined unto virgins that strip themselves of their possessions; for this indeed is virginity. -Saint John Chrysostom . . . #CopticOrthodox #Orthodox #DailyReadings #Parable #TheParablesOfJesus #WiseAndFoolishVirgins

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“He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32 . “Do not lose heart. There is hope, and it is Christ.” St Ephraim the Syrian #salvation #hope #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

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