Have a Blessed Day
Pray for my weakness
Fr. Antonious Abba Moses
The Life of Repentance and Purity part5
By Pope Shenouda III
Repentance is the exchange of one lust for another.
It is the lust to live with God, instead of sinful and bodily lust. Apart from the negative side which is forsaking sin and its love, repentance has also a positive side which leads the person to the love of God, His kingdom and His ways. It is a warm feeling, making the person desire a pure life.
· Repentance is renewal for the mind.
The renewal of the nature occurs in baptism (Rom 6:4). But the renewal of the mind occurs in repentance, practically as the apostle says: “be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Rom 12:2).
· Repentance is the golden key that opens the door of the kingdom of heaven.
Or it is the true door that leads to heaven because without repentance, God does not reign in our hearts. Repentance is the oil in the lamp stands of the virgins, granting them the right to enter into the wedding feast (Matt 25).
· Repentance is the canal which delivers the worthiness of the blood from the cross.
This is the only way for our sins to be removed after baptism, and so some have called it: ‘a second baptism’. It is a strong rebuke to Satan. It is a dissolution of the communion between
the sinner and the devil, so as to enter into communion with the Holy Spirit (2 Cor 13:14).
Today’s Synaxarium: 25 Hatour 1728
v Mercurius known as the Saint with Two Swords
Today we will read chapter 48 from the book of Psalm at 10:00 PM, May God bless.
+ سنكسار اليوم:25 هاتور 1728
v استشهاد القديس مرقوريوس أبى سيفين بالقرن الثالث الميلادى
آية اليوم: و تطلبونني فتجدونني اذ تطلبونني بكل قلبكم (ار 29 : 13 )
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