Have a Blessed Day
Pray for my weakness
Fr. Antonious Abba Moses
The Life of Repentance and Purity part7
By H.H Pope Shenouda III
- Repentance is the way of escaping from the coming anger.
This is under the condition that it is true repentance and is appropriate to the seriousness of the sin. The repentance of the people of Ninevah, made God relent from the disaster that He
had said, He would bring upon them and He did not do so (Jonah 3:10). Similarly for other judgements of God, (Jer 26:13, Ex 18:21,22). The lovely saying of one of the saints is: ‘God
will not ask you why did you sin? But He will ask you, why did you not repent?’.
- Repentance is then, God's preservation of you and His pardon of your sin.
God, from the depth of His love, gave everyone the chance for salvation, no matter how great his sins were, God does not take anyone while in sin, before giving him a chance to repent.
Repentance is a divine privilege which God has given to the sinners, to purify them, and to rest their consciousness giving them the inner peace, and ensuring their return to their original nature before the first sin.
- It is God's outstretched hand, asking to be reconciled with you.
It is a chance for starting a new page, which God opens in His relationship with you and forgives you for the past and He shall wash you and you shall be whiter than snow (Ps 50). It is a chance for building up your hope, and ridding yourself of despair. It has been said about repentance that it is the door of mercy, forgiveness and life and it is a bridge linking heaven and earth. The previous points showed God's role in forgiveness, the following is the human role.
Today’s Synaxarium: 14 Amshir 1728
· Departure of St. Severus, the Patriarch of Antioch
· Departure of St. James, the Fiftieth Pope of Alexandria (St.Yacobus)
Today we will read chapter 56 from the book of Psalm at 10:00 PM, May God bless.
+ سنكسار اليوم: 14 أمشير 1728
· نياحة القديس ساويرس بطريرك انطاكية
· نياحة القديس الأنبا يعقوب بابا الإسكندرية الخمسون
آية اليوم: هكذا يكون الفرح في السماء بخاطئ واحد يتوب أكثر من الفرح بتسعة وتسعين من الأبرار لا يحتاجون الى التوبة (لوقا7:15(
حكمة اليوم : القلب النقى نقاوة كاملة هو القلب الذى مات بالتمام عن اباطيل العالم كلها لكى يحيا بالتمام للرب
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