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

“The message of God’s children is to carry in their persons the image of God to the world, that all who see them know God and love Him, as they are in His image” ~ The Thrice Blessed Pope Shenouda III #beHisImage #Shine #youarethelight #lightoftheworld #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“The message of God’s children is to carry in their persons the image of God to the world, that all …

My God… You are my Light, open my eyes to see Your divine beauty. I cannot walk on my way without falling into the traps of the enemy. What is light but You my God! You are the Light to the children of light! Your day does not have a sunset! Your day gives light to Your children, that they might not stumble down. But those who are away from You walk and live in darkness! Let us then get close to You who are the Light of the world. Why do we have to try getting away from You everyday?! Anyone who keeps distance from you, the true Light goes deeper into the darkness of sin. And when darkness envelops him, he would not be able to distinguish the traps set up for him, all along the road! – St Augustine . . #lightoftheworld #dailyreadings #copticorthodox #orthodoxy

My God… You are my Light, open my eyes to see Your divine beauty. I cannot walk on my way …

“What then? Do you command us to live for display and vain glory? Far from it…..but Let your light shine. That is, Let your virtue be great, and the fire abundant, and the light unspeakable. For when virtue is so great, it cannot lie hidden, though its pursuer shade it over ten thousand fold. Present unto them an irreprehensible life, and let them have no true occasion of evil speaking; and then, though there be thousands of evil-speakers, no man shall be able to cast any shade upon you.” – St. John Chrysostom #GlorifyGod #Shine #Light #LightOfTheWorld #SaltOfTheEarth #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #ChurchFathers

“What then? Do you command us to live for display and vain glory? Far from it…..but Let your light shine. …

“For the soul that is privileged to be in communion with the Spirit of His light, and is irradiated by the beauty of the unspeakable glory of Him who has prepared her to be a seat and a dwelling for Himself, becomes all light, all face, all eye; and there is no part of her that is not full of the spiritual eyes of light.” St Macarius the Great #JesusChrist #Lightoftheworld #abideinHim #HolyFifty #ChristisRisen #TrulyHeisRisen #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“For the soul that is privileged to be in communion with the Spirit of His light, and is irradiated by …

“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 …