Name: On Bended Knees by HG Bishop Gregory by SUSCopts in Sermons - less than 10m
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Description: A message from HG Bishop Gregory during the coronavirus pandemic.

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"Sing a new song to the Lord!
Sing to the Lord all the earth!
Sing to the Lord, praise His name. 
Proclaim His Salvation from day to day."

- Psalm 96:1-2

Psalm 96: 1-2 - Sing A New Song to the Lord

ابتهجي يا مريم للشمامسة انطون ومينا عياد وماجد ميلاد| (Efrahi ya Mariam) Anton and Mina Ayad

2 Corinthians 4:17

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

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Gerhardt-Strachan, K. (2022). Exploring the place of spirituality in Canadian health promotion. Health Promotion International, 37(1) 
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Spirituality, religiousness and health : from research to clinical practice (G. Lucchetti, M. F. Prieto Peres, & R. F. Damiano, Eds.). Springer

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A message from HG Bishop Gregory during the coronavirus pandemic.

On Bended Knees by HG Bishop Gregory

This is part of the series called "ABBA Give me a WORD".

His Grace shares with us some words from St Eusebius of Caesarea says concerning this treatise:
“A pestilent disease took possession of many provinces of the whole world, and especially Alexandria and Egypt; as Dionysius writes, and the treatise of Cyprian ‘concerning the Mortality’ bears witness.”(1)

Then His Graces shares with some words from St. Cyprian of Carthage’s Treatise 7: On the Mortality, Part 16:
“…beloved brethren, what is it, what a great thing is it, how pertinent, how necessary, that that pestilence and plague which seems horrible and deadly, searches out the righteousness of each one, and examines the minds of the human race, to see (1) whether they who are in health tend the sick; (2) whether relations affectionately love their family; (3) whether masters pity their weakened servants; (4) whether physicians do not forsake the beseeching patients; (5) whether the fierce suppress their violence; (6) whether the greedy can quench the ever insatiable desire of their raging avarice even by the fear of death; (7) whether the arrogant bend their neck; (8) whether the wicked soften their boldness; (9) whether, when their dear ones perish, the rich, even then bestow anything, and give, when they are to die without heirs. (10) Even although this mortality conferred nothing else, it has done this benefit to Christians and to God’s servants, that we begin gladly to desire martyrdom as we learn not to fear death. These are trainings for us, not deaths: they give the mind the glory of fortitude; by contempt of death they prepare for the crown.” (2)

References:
(1)	Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, eds., Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, vol. 5, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1886)

(2)	Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, eds., Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, vol. 5, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1886).

When the Lord Jesus Christ called His disciples, He called them by a few simple words..."Follow Me".

ABBA Give me a WORD

ABBA Give me a WORD: Use Pestilence to Search me O God by HG Bishop Basil

This is part of the series called "ABBA Give me a WORD".

His Grace shares with us some words from St. Gregory the Theologian in Oration 17:
“Just take the first step. Comfort is near, on your lips and in your heart. I remembered God, says the Psalmist, and rejoiced. What could be easier than remembering? You too remember and rejoice. The remedy is so simple! The cure so fast! The gift so magnificent! The remembrance of God not only lulls the sense of desolation and anguish but also gives rise to joy.”

His Graces asks us to train ourselves to remember God!

When the Lord Jesus Christ called His disciples, He called them by a few simple words..."Follow Me".

ABBA Give me a WORD: Remember God by HG Bishop Gregory

This is part of the series called "ABBA Give me a WORD".

As we approach Holy Week praying via online services, His Grace shares with us some words from St. John Climacus:
“The effort of bodily prayer can help those not yet granted real prayer of the heart. I am referring to the stretching out of the hands, the beating of the breast, the sincere raising of the eyes heavenward, deep sighs and constant prostrations… If you can, lift up the eyes of your soul, but if not, the eyes of your body.” – (St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 15, On Chastity)

His Grace also shares with us some words from St. Macarius:
“If you do not have the prayer of the spirit, strive for prayer of the body, and then shall be added to you the prayer in the spirit.” (St. Macarius)

His Grace then continues to share us words from St. Isaac the Syrian:
“Consider every prayer wherein the body does not toil and the heart is not afflicted to be a miscarriage, for this prayer has no soul.” (St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 21 in The Ascetical Homilies)

His Grace prays that we offer heartfelt prayers, truly raise our hearts to our Lord and pleading for ourselves and for the whole world.

When the Lord Jesus Christ called His disciples, He called them by a few simple words..."Follow Me".

ABBA Give me a WORD: Active Participation in Prayer and Bodily Toil by HG Bishop Gregory

His Grace shares with us a Prayer of Repentance that can be found in Homily 16 of the Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian as well as Discourse 4 of John of Dalyatha:

O Master Lord Jesus Christ, who wept for your friend Lazarus and shed tears of sorrow and compassion upon him, accept the tears of my bitterness. 

Through your passions heal my passions; through your wounds cure my wounds; through your blood purify my blood, and mingle with my body the fragrance of your life-giving body. 

Let the gall, which was given to you by the enemies, sweeten my soul from bitterness, given to me by the adversaries.

Let your body, which was stretched on the tree of the Cross, make my mind, pulled down by the demons, fly towards you.

Let your head, which you bowed on the Cross lift up my head, smitten by the opponents.

Let your all-holy hands, which were nailed by the godless on the Cross, raise me from the chasm of perdition and bring me towards you, as your most holy mouth has promised.

Let your face, which receives spats and spittles by the cursed ones, bring a shine to my face, sullied by my sins.

Let your soul, which you, while on the Cross, offered to your father, lead me towards you by your grace.

I do not have a painful heart to seek after you; I do not have repentance nor contrition which bring the children back to their inheritance; I do not have, O Master, entreating tears.

My mind has darkened by worldly and material things and is not capable of look at you with pain.

My heart has turned cold from the multitude of temptations and cannot warm itself with the tears of love for you.

But you, O Lord Jesus Christ, the treasury of good, grant me complete repentance and a painful heart, so I may go out searching for you with all my heart.

Without you, I am stranger to any good.

Thus, grant me, O good one, your grace; let your Father, who, before all ages and eternally, has begotten you from his bosom, renew in me the form of your image.

I have forsaken you, but do not forsake me; I have come out away from you, so come out in search for me, and lead me into your pasture, numbering me among the sheep of your excellent flock and feeding me together with them the grass of your divine mysteries whose haunt is the pure heart and in which the illuminations of your revelations is seen, bringing consolation and refreshment to those who work hard and suffer afflictions and various griefs for you.

Make us worthy of this illumination through your grace and love of man, our Savior Jesus Christ, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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