Session one of this weekend’s retreat reflecting on “Sacrifice”, and particularly “Personal Sacrifices in Love”.
“We have received with love. We have received selflessly and sacrificially, and so that is how we must also give…and the more we give, the more sacrificial we are, the more we continue to receive”
Vespers and a Youth Q&A at @StMarkCoptic #Chicago last night with my dear brother Bishop Kyrellos, principal of @ActsLibrary in Los Angeles, with a range of questions that were both deep and challenging on Scripture, Rituals, the Sacraments, the life of repentance and confession, and the nature or contemporary Christian living…and an old favourite!
A beautiful Liturgy this morning at @StMarkCoptic in Chicago, consecrating what seemed like myriad of Subdeacons, Readers and Chanters, followed by a Servants’ meeting
Today’s Gospel message:
“We were created to be different; to give without expectation, to be reconcilers in conflict, and even to love our enemies. All the things that may seem ludicrous and unimaginable, but that are at the very core of the Christian message.”
An incredibly packed but satisfying and joyous forty-eight hours in #Chicago celebrating Liturgical services, ordinations, consecrations, pastoral engagement, youth ministry, Servants’ ministry, an interview on the journey do the Church, and many opportunities to catch up with dear spiritual children.
Thank you @StMarkCoptic!
A joy to welcome #KingCharlesIII to @CopticCentreUK and @CopticCathedral yesterday.
“We are very thankful to His Majesty for his visit…sincerity and warmth, and pray blessing upon him, the Nation, the Commonwealth and the world during this Advent period”
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Listen to this short sermon by HE @BishopAngaelos @StPaulMinistry on using our God-given gifts for not only ourselves but in the service of others https://t.co/E8rGTNLLNd
Happy 19th Anniversary of priesthood to our dear Fr. Pavlos Fahmy. God Bless your service and keep you for us for many years. Also a huge gratitude for Tasony Hanaa for her love, care and support! https://t.co/FnbIeWCBjM
“As two pieces of wax fused together make one, so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ”
St #CyrilOfAlexandria, a prolific father of the Church Universal, on the day of his commemoration in the #Coptic Orthodox calendar