The Spiritual Vestment

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
“I have no pleasure in them.”
Ecclesiastes 12:1

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Annual Liturgy Psalm in its Major Tune - Cantor Tharwat

Great Kata Nikhoros Live 2017

The Hymn of the Seven Tunes chanted in English at St. Verena American Coptic Orthodox Church during Matins of the Glorious Feast of Nativity 2019.

Seven Tunes (English) Live

His Grace shares with us words from St. Ephraim the Syrian about struggle.

St Ephraim the Syrian said:
"We do well to admire the blessedness of the saints and desire to be crowned as they are, but we are unwilling to imitate their labors and combats. Do you think that they were drowned without labors and afflictions in the same manner as you desire to be? Will you hear what kind of rest the saints had in this life? Some of them were tortured, others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, even more of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted and tormented. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. Lo, you have heard a few particulars out of many. Such were the accommodations and repose of the saints in this life; and they bore these things with all joy because they looked for those eternal good things which are laid up for them in the heavens, which eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither have they entered into to heart of man.”

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ABBA Give me a WORD

Abba Give me a Word: The Comfort of the Saints: Struggle by HG Bishop Gregory

His Grace shares with us words from St. Macarius of Egypt about repeated sins.

"Nevertheless, to root out sin and the evil that is ever with us, this can only be accomplished by the divine power. It is not possible or within a man’s competence to root out sin by his own power. To wrestle against it, to fight against it, to give and receive blows, is thine; to uproot is God’s." - St. Macarius of Egypt. St Macarius the Great, Homily #3 from the Fifty Spiritual Homilies

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Abba Give me a Word: Repeated Sins: Will I ever Stop? by HG Bishop Gregory

Feast of the Cross Sunday Homily: Power of the Cross by HG Bishop Gregory
Holy Gospel according to St. John 10:22-38
St. Mary and Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church
Houston, TX
Pastoral Visit
September 27, 2020

Sunday Homily

Feast of the Cross Sunday Homily: Power of the Cross by HG Bishop Gregory

His Grace speaks with us about the importance of Scripture and the words of God in our life and shares words from the book written by St. Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony.

Whenever he received a imperial letter, he would gather together the monks who happened to be with him, and say to them, “You marvel, perhaps, that the kings and the princes should write epistles to us, but what need is there for wonder, seeing that it is only one man writing letters to another? But what you should wonder at is how God wrote the Law for the children of men, and how He has spoken to us through His only Son.” (Life of Antony by St Athanasius)

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ABBA Give Me a WORD: Letter from the King by HG Bishop Gregory

Abouna Gregory Bekhit Gregorian Agios in Coptic

Coptic Basilian Fraction - Fr. Kyrillos Said

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Feast of the Cross Sunday Homily: Power of the Cross by HG Bishop Gregory

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