Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

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Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States episodes

  • ABBA Give me a WORD: Remember God 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. 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".
    4 min
  • 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 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".
    5 min
  • ABBA Give me a WORD: Avoiding the Virus by HG Bishop Gregory
    This is part of the series called "ABBA Give me a WORD" by HG Bishop Gregory.
    His Grace shares with us some words from St. John Climacus:
    “Run from places of sin as from the plague. For when fruit is not present, we have no frequent desire to eat it." (Ladder of Divine Ascent Step 3.9)
    Then His Graces shares with some words from St. Gregory of Nyssa:
    “Now having learned what great power for evil the disease of pleasure possesses, we should conduct our lives as far removed from it as possible; otherwise the disease may find some opening against us, like fire whose very proximity causes an evil flame.[…] So also it is in our power to remain unaffected by passion as long as we stay far away from the thing that enflames. […] For the evils of the passions, like a plague, when once they have gained possession of the critical parts, stop only at death.” ("The Life of Moses” 2.303)
    When the Lord Jesus Christ called His disciples, He called them by a few simple words..."Follow Me".
    5 min
  • ABBA Give me a WORD: Do Not Despair 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. John of Dalyatha about the power of repentance and how the chains are broken and adversities changed into joy.
    “Their chains are broken and their adversities are changed into joy and their tears into great rejoicing. He who had bound them is himself bound by their reins of darkness and delivered by them to the scourgers. Repentance destroys all his works, and all the pains he cause the servants who are not his, she HEALS and RESTORES. All whom he has killed she resuscitates, all his traps she shatters, and all his snares she cuts to bits.[…] She makes fornicators virgins” (Letter 43)
    When the Lord Jesus Christ called His disciples, He called them by a few simple words..."Follow Me".
    6 min

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