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“Christ loved us in our unloveliness, in order to make us lovely like Himself.” – St. Augustine #dailyreadings #holyweek #goodfriday #atonement

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6th Hour of Friday Eve⁣ “By saying then, “If it be possible, let it pass from me,” he showed his true humanity. But by saying, “Nevertheless not as I will, but as you will,” he showed his virtue and selfcommand. This too teaches us, even when nature pulls us back, to follow God. In order to make clear that he is truly God and truly human, words alone would not suffice…So he joined deeds with words…even [the] highly contentious may believe that he both became man and died”-St John Chrysostom

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Covenant Thursday of The Holy Pascha Week – Gospel of The Liturgy Jesus calls it blood of a New Testament that of the undertaking the promise the new law. For this He undertook also of old and this comprises the Testament that is in the new law. And like as the Old Testament had sheep and bullocks so this has the Lord’s blood. Hence also He shows that He is soon to die wherefore also He made mention of a Testament and He reminds them also of the former Testament for that also was dedicated wi

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Covenant Thursday – The Gospel of The Liturgy of The Water We remember that the way in which we commended to your attention the grandeur of this act of the Lord’s was that in washing the feet of disciples who were already washed and clean the Lord instituted a sign to the end that on account of the human feelings that occupy us on earth however far we may have advanced in our apprehension of righteousness we might know that we are not exempt from sin; which He thereafter washes away by interce

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The 11 hour of Thursday Eve of the Holy Pascha. “In Holy Week, do not be the cause of anyone’s suffering… but as Christ, in this week, bore the sins of the world, say, ‘I, too, will bear the sins of others’ ” – H.H. Pope Shenouda III #coptic #orthodox #faith #holyweek

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