Pray for my weakness
Fr. Antonious Abba Moses
The Life of Repentance and Purity part2
By H.H Pope Shenouda III
Repentance is also a spiritual awakening.
The sinful person is unaware of his state. The Bible says to him: “that now it is high time to awake out of sleep”(Rom 13:11). By this context, repentance is the return of a person
to himself. Or the return of ones self to its original sensitivity, the return of the heart to its fervour and the return of the conscience to its work. It is justly said about the prodigal son
in his repentance: “He came to himself” (Luke 15:17). He then came back to his alertness, to his correct thinking and to his spiritual understanding. For as sin is regarded as spiritual death, just as the Bible says about sinners that they are: “dead in trespasses” (Eph 2:5), then repentance is transfer from death to life
according to the expression of St. John the Evangelist (1 John 3:14). St. Paul the apostle says about this: “Awake, you who sleep; Arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light”
(Eph 5:14). St. James the apostle confirms the same meaning by saying: “he who turns a sinner from the ‘error’ of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins”
(James 5:20). Repentance is resurrection for the spirit, because the death of the spirit is separation of the spirit from God, just as St. Augustine said:
· ‘Repentance is a new pure heart, which God gives to the sinners to love Him with’. It is a divine act performed by God inside the person, according to His divine promise which
says, “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, I will cleanse you from all your filthiness.... I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.... and cause you to walk in My
statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them” (Ezek 36:25-27).
Today’s Synaxarium: 4 Hatour 1728
v Martyrdom of the Saints John and James, Bishops of Persia
v Martyrdom of Saints Epimachus and Azarianus
Today we will read chapter 35 from the book of Psalm at 10:00 PM, May God bless.
+ سنكسار اليوم: 4 هاتور 1728
v استشهاد القديس يوحنا ويعقوب أسقفى فارس
v استشهاد القديس الانبا توماس الاسقف
v استشهاد القديس إبيماخوس وعزريانوس ( 4 هـاتور)
آية اليوم: و اكون لكم ابا و انتم تكونون لي بنين و بنات يقول الرب القادر على كل شيء ( كورنثوس الثانيه 6 : 18 )
حكمة اليوم : في قلب كل شتاء ربيع نابض ... ووراء كل ليل فجر باسم.
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