[quote author=copt andrew link=topic=6417.msg88736#msg88736 date=1211925941]
Yes, It says that it ONLY gives you graces but it DOES NOT take away sins.
Not to be mean. I love you. ;D
God Bless,
Copt Andrew
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i think that is alittle bit we…
the bigggest KEY word in that sentence is JUST... u take away ust and it is a wrong claim.... just here is a very sensetive word, if you know what mean...... when u add ALSO, it makes the quote a lot more understandable
so th…
you have to read the whole thing and get the big picture that sentence is telling you... u can't always take everything word by word, and don't edit parts of it out.... no ofence or anything.....
[quote author=Hezekiel link=topic=6489.msg88687#msg88687 date=1211907370]
Coptic Pharoah has put it nicely,when s/he said "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
Marmoura,the stage is all yours …
[quote author=MankindLoverSon link=topic=6634.msg88654#msg88654 date=1211875140]
t3esh rbna ya7'alek , it is nice to know that u can speak arabic . [/quote]
lots of people speak arabic on here, includng me, and others who can't speak can ususal…
Abba Theodore of Scetis said, 'A thought comes to me which troubles me and does not leave me free; but not being able to lead me to act, it simply stops me progressing in virtue; but a vigilant man would cut it off and get up to pray.'
Thanks Joe for the link, i just got the Bostan el Rohban on Audio in Arabic.... i havn't listened to it yet thou..... if you want it , i can try to put it in a zipped file and send it to you by mail.... it is in 45 parts....
I read it and somewhat disagree..... it is mostly all references from the Old Testement (with the expetion of 1 from Romans), the Jews beleived an eye for an eye, then, when Jesus came, He didn't tell us eye for eye. my point is, that person killed…
I wouldn't go too far with capital punishment, even GOD forgave the people who KILLED HIM SLOWLY and PAINFULLY on the Cross, if He wanted us to beleive in Capital Punishment, than He could have very easy said 1 word, 1 WORD and they were all go…
Take care when you say"Quiet time" alone, then do go and sit and do nothing and be IDLE... if you are then the devil will attack, keep busy and the devil wont find tons time to attack like if you were just sitting doing nothing..... i beleive in …
[quote author=jydeacon link=topic=6636.msg88628#msg88628 date=1211855221]
He is saying that what they are wearing resembles what HH would sometimes were, HH Pope Kyrillos has been reposed for 30 or so years
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i know that pope Kyrollos repose…
[quote author=Tishori link=topic=6636.msg88616#msg88616 date=1211851667]
I still see some non-traditional things that priests wear. lol I've seen things with hoods and purples and blues. They are all very beautiful just a bit strange to see in our c…
'Arsenius, flee, be silent, pray always, for these are the
source of sinlessness.' (St. Arsenius)
"I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying …
I think St.Augestine himslef is a grat example of this, His mother cried every day for like 20 years for Him to get back to Christianity (because He was doing really bad things) and after all the crying from His mother He got back to Christ and wrot…
[quote author=Schoyen link=topic=5982.msg88559#msg88559 date=1211835087]
Like I said, the standard modern English translations all are based on something like the Alexandrian text type.
But the Greek text accounts for only one of the two types of d…
It was said of Abba John the Dwarf that he withdrew and lived in the desert at Scetis with an old man of Thebes. His Abba, taking a piece of dry wood, planted it and said to him, 'Water it every day with a bottle of water, until it bears fruit.' Now…
Abba John said, 'I am like a man sitting under a great tree, who sees wild beasts and snakes coming against him in great numbers. When he cannot withstand them any longer, he runs to climb the tree and is saved. It is just the same with me; I sit in…
The holy Fathers were making predictions about the last generation. They said 'What have we ourselves done?' One of them, the great Abba Ischyrion replied, 'We ourselves have fulfilled the commandments of God.' The others replied, 'And those who com…
When you pray to God in time of temptation do not say, 'Take this or that away from me', but pray like this: 'O Jesus Christ, sovereign Master, help me and do not let me sin against Thee...'
Abba Dioscorus (the monk), 'In his cell he wept over himself, while his disciple was sitting in another cell. When the latter came to see the old man he asked him, "Father, why are you weeping?" "I am weeping over my sins," the old man answered him.…