“True repentance is a human longing for the origin from which we were taken. It is the desire of a heart that strayed from God, and finally felt it could go no further away.” H.H Pope Shenouda III #ThereturnoftheProdigalSon #TheProdigalSon #repentance #OurFather #renewal #thirdSundayofLent #Lent #fasting #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“Love does not seek its own for it lives for the sake of others, in the realm of God.” – Fr. Bishoy Kamel #coptic #orthodoxy #love #lent #fasting #dailyreadings
“Hold me worthy, O Lord, to behold your mercy in my soul before I depart from this world; may I be aware in myself at that hour of your comfort, along with those who have gone forth from this world in good hope. Open my heart, O my God, by your grace and purify me …
“As when the light enters into a dark home and casts away (Chases) its darkness and lightens it, as well as when God’s fear enters the man’s heart, it will cast away (chase) ignorance and learn him all the virtues and wisdoms.” – St. Anthony the Great #fasting #lent #light #sharelight #coptic #copticorthodox #dailyreadings
“For since with a view to our instruction He both did and underwent all things; He endures also to be led up there, and to wrestle against the devil: in order that each of those who are baptized, if after his baptism he has to endure greater temptations may not be troubled as if the …