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

“The Lord speaks about death and calls it sleep. Sleep indicates physical rest as it helps restore the energy of the body. Thus a person wakes up to start in a new day fully active and energetic. This is true as well in the case of the sleep of death; for a believer, when he goes to sleep, rises up into a new life armed with new potentials of a new world” – Fr Tadros Malaty . “Truly it is not said about saints that they are dead but rather they are laying down or resting” St Jerome . . #lazarussaturday #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodoxy #copticorthodox #resurrectionandlife #lifeinchrist #gloryofgod

“The Lord speaks about death and calls it sleep. Sleep indicates physical rest as it helps restore the energy of …