The First Visit of H.G. Anba Mina to Kitchener (Entry)
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- Created on Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:36
WELCOMING ADDRESS FOR HIS GRACE ABBA MINA
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- Created on Monday, 08 April 2013 23:44
Your Grace bishop Mina, your Eminences and your Graces the Metropolitans and bishops, distinguished guests, my fathers the priests and my fellow Copts. Today, according to the ancient Coptic calendar, our Church celebrates the Feast of the Annunciation. When the angel Gabriel was sent to a virgin from Nazareth of Galilee to announce to her the greatest news of all times: the coming of the Messiah.
St. John Crysostom on Fasting
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8. I speak not, indeed, of such a fast as most persons keep, but of real fasting; not merely an abstinence from foods; but from sins too. ... "For the wrestler," it is said, "is not crowned unless he strive lawfully." To the end then, that when we have gone through the labour of fasting, we forfeit not the crown of fasting, .... since that Pharisee also fasted, but afterwards went down empty, and destitute of the fruit of fasting.
Saint Theophilus on Fasting and Repentance
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The prophet has said, “My tears have been my food day and night” (Ps. 42 {41}:3), and again, “A worn and humble heart God will not despise” (cf. Ps. 51 {50}:17). Let us therefore, my dear brethren, afflict our souls now with fasting while giving our bodies over to death through many kinds of suffering, until we have become companions to the angel of repentance, that he may direct his path towards us.
St. Cyril on the Circumcision of Christ
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Christ therefore ransomed from the curse of the law those who being subject to it, had been unable to keep its enactments. And in what way did He ransom them? By fulfilling it. And to put it in another way: in order that He might expiate the guilt of Adam's transgression, He showed Himself obedient and submissive in every respect to God the Father in our stead: for it is written, "That as through the disobedience of the One man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One, the many shall be made just." He yielded therefore His neck to the law in company with us, because the plan of salvation so required: for it became Him to fulfil all righteousness. For having assumed the form of a slave, as being now enrolled by reason of His human nature among those subject to the yoke, He once even paid the half shekel to the collectors of the tribute, although by nature free, and as the Son not liable to pay the tax. When therefore them seest Him keeping the law, be not offended, nor place the free-born among the slaves, but reflect rather upon the profoundness of the plan of salvation. ...