ليحدث ما يحدث، مادمتم في النهاية تخجلون وتعتنون بإخوتكم بسبب لجاجتي الدائمة. لأنه ماذا تفيدني مديحكم ما لم أراكم تتقدمون في الفضيلة؟! وماذا يضرني في صمت السامعين (عن مدحي) إن كنت أري نحو تقدمكم؟!
Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapters 7, 10, 11, 23
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Monday, December 13, 2010
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Therefore Abraham also, knowing the Father through the Word, who made heaven and earth, confessed Him to be God; and having learned, by an announcement [made to him], that the Son of God would be a man among men, by whose advent his seed should be as the stars of heaven, he desired to see that day, so that he might himself also embrace Christ; and, seeing it through the spirit of prophecy, he rejoiced [Genesis 17:17]. Wherefore Symeon also, one of his descendants, carried fully out the rejoicing of the patriarch, and said: “Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace. For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared before the face of all people: a light for the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of the people Israel” [Luke 2:29].
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
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كيرلس يهدي تحياته في الرب إلى المحبوبين والمشتاق إليهم جداً أنسطاسيوس، ألكسندروس، مارتينيانوس، يوحنا، باريغوريوس القس، مكسيموس الشماس، وإلي آباء الرهبان الأرثوذكس الباقين، وإلي الذين يعيشون معكم الحياة التوحدية المتأسسين في إيمان الله. مقدمة عن قانون إيمان مجمع نيقية(1) :
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
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Not to every one, my friends, does it belong to philosophize about God; not to every one; the Subject is not so cheap and low; and I will add, not before every audience, nor at all times, nor on all points; but on certain occasions, and before certain persons, and within certain limits. Not to all men, because it is permitted only to those who have been examined, and are passed masters in meditation, and who have been previously purified in soul and body, or at the very least are being purified. For the impure to touch the pure is, we may safely say, not safe, just as it is unsafe to fix weak eyes upon the sun’s rays. And what is the permitted occasion? It is when we are free from all external defilement or disturbance, and when that which rules within us is not confused with vexatious or erring images; like persons mixing up good writing with bad, or filth with the sweet odors of unguents.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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1 ـ قيامة المسيح اليوم تبتهج كل الملائكة وتفرح كل القوات السمائية لأجل خلاص كل الجنس البشرى. فإن كان هناك فرح في السماء بخاطئ واحد يتوب ، فبالأولى كثيرًا يكون هذا الفرح بخلاص كل البشرية. اليوم تحرر الجنس البشرى من قبضة الشيطان وأُعيد الإنسان لي رتبته الأولى، إذ أن المسيح انتصر على الموت. إنني لا أخاف بعد ولا أرتعب من الحروب الشيطانية . ولا أنظر لي ضعفى، لكنني أتطلع لي قوة ذاك الذي صار لي سندًا وعونًا ، أتطلع لي ذلك الذي هزم الموت ونزع طغيانه. اليوم يسود الفرح والابتهاج الروحي كل المسكونة .
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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Our Lord Jesus Christ has appointed certain men to be guides and teachers of the world and stewards of his divine mysteries. Now he bids them to shine out like lamps and to cast out their light not only over the land of the Jews but over every country under the sun and over people scattered in all directions and settled in distant lands. That man has spoken truly who said: No one takes honor upon himself, except the one who is called by God, for it was our Lord Jesus Christ who called his own disciples before all others to a most glorious apostolate. These holy men became the pillar and mainstay of the truth, and Jesus said that he was sending them just as the Father had sent him.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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“Verily, verily, I say unto you, There are some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” Thus, inasmuch as He had discoursed much of dangers and death, and of His own passion, and of the slaughter of the disciples, and had laid on them those severe injunctions; and these were in the present life and at hand, but the good things in hope and expectation:—for example, “They save their life who lose it;” “He is coming in the glory of His Father;” “He renders His rewards:”
From On The Duties of Clergy: Book II, Chapter 1
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Happiness in life is to be gained by living virtuously, inasmuch as thus a Christian, whilst despising glory and the favour of men, desires to please God alone in what he does. 1. In the first book we spoke of the duties which we thought befitted a virtuous life, whereon no one has ever doubted but that a blessed life, which the Scripture calls eternal life, depends. So great is the splendor of a virtuous life that a peaceful conscience and a calm innocence work out a happy life. And as the risen sun hides the globe of the moon and the light of the stars, so the brightness of a virtuous life, where it glitters in true pure glory, casts into the shade all other things, which, according to the desires of the body, are considered to be good, or are reckoned in the eyes of the world to be great and noble.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
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“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Romans 16:24)
See how we should begin and end everything? For with this St Paul laid the foundation of his Epistle, and with this he puts on the roof, at once praying for the mother of all good things for the Romans, and calling the whole of his loving-kindness to their mind. For this is the best proof of a generous teacher, to benefit his learners not by word only, but likewise by prayer, which is why it has been said,
“Let us give ourselves continually to prayers, and to the ministry of the word” (Acts 6:4).
Who is there then to pray over us, since Paul has departed?
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