“Hypocrisy, because it is a counterfeit of the good, possesses nothing vital of the good it simulates, but is only its dead bones, so to speak …. If we listen with wisdom to what the present passage wants to tell us, we will understand that every simulated righteousness is a dead righteousness, hence no righteousness …
Oh God, teach me how to seek You above all, and not anything else but You, because He who seeks You finds everything in You – St Ephrem the Syrian . . #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings #thereisnonebesidesYou #everygoodnessisinHim #everythinginHim
The man who is perpetually absorbed in this present life, and yet not with eternity, or with death, or with what comes after death, can easily be oblivious of the soul. The rich fool didn’t think of death but thought of a long lifetime ahead of him… the man who walks in the leisure and …
“We have a new world through the coming of our Saviour, in whom all things became new for us.” – St. Cyril the Great . #NewYear #CopticNewYear #Nayrouz #CopticOrthodox #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings
“In love did God bring the world into existence; in love is God going to bring it to that wondrous transformed state, and in love will the world be swallowed up in the great mystery of the one who has preformed all these things; in love will the whole course of the governance of creation …
