Have a Blessed Day
Pray for my weakness
Fr. Antonious Abba Moses
The Life of Repentance and Purity part 9
By H.H Pope Shenouda III
Saint John Saba said: ‘Repentance is a great torment to the devil who tries to stop it’. For it saves and releases those whom the devil captured with his evil. Many years of the devils hard work are lost in one hour of repentance. All the thorns he has planted in our land and grown with great care over many years, gets burnt in one day and our land is purified.
Repentance makes virgins out of adulterers.
Who does not love you O repentance, O you who carries all the blessings, except the devil, whom you have captured all his riches and wasted all his possessions.
O mother of forgiveness, the Father who is filled with mercy, will not be angered by your pleadings.... since He granted you to be a intercessor for the sinners and He gave
you the key to His kingdom. After Youhanna El Daragy visited the repentant's monastery and saw the contrition of their souls by repentance, the intensity of their struggle and the fervour of their prayers, he said, ‘I blessed those who sinned, and repented weeping, more
than those who did not fall and did not weep for their souls’. Repentance is joy in heaven and on earth. It is written:
“There will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents” (Luke 15:7,10). So if you wish to make heaven joyous, repent. It is joy on earth also. it is joy for the repentant, the pastor and
for all the church. Repentance is joy since it is an invitation to the captives, to liberty (Is 61:1). It is joy for the freedom from the slavery of Satan and sin, a joy in the new pure life and a joy in forgiveness.
Today’s Synaxarium: 22 Amshir 1728
- Departure of St. Maruta (Marouta) the Bishop
Today we will read chapter 64 from the book of Psalm at 10:00 PM, May God bless.
+ سنكسار اليوم: 22 أمشير 1728
· استشهاد القديس ماروتا اسقف ميافرقين
آية اليوم: الحق أقول لكم: حيثما يكرز بهذا الإنجيل في كل العالم، يخبر أيضا بما فعلته هذه، تذكارا لها(مرقس9:14)
حكمة اليوم : صديقك هوا قلبك الثانى, الذى يحس بنفس شعورك. ... يتالم لالمك من اعماقه, ويفرح لفرحك من اعماقه. هو رصيد لك من الحب , ورصيد من العون, وبخاصة فى وقت الضيق ...لا يتخلى عنك
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