St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church
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The Most Holy Theotokos occupies the most important place in the Orthodox Church next to Christ. We can see this very clearly in the liturgy, hymns, and even the architecture of any Orthodox Church. When you enter an Orthodox Church, for example, you are greeted immediately with an icon of St. Mary along with the […]
On Friday, January 14, 2011 (Tuba 6), the Coptic Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast of the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is one of the seven minor feasts of our Lord in which we remember that the Word of God Who gave us the Law subjected Himself to the same Law in order […]
In the Name of the Almighty God. On behalf of the parish community, I would like to congratulate all of you on the beginning of the Coptic month of Kiahk, which commences this Friday, December 10 and ends Saturday, January 8, 2011. Joy and Wonder During this month, we commemorate the events that led to the transformation […]
Abba John is numbered among the greatest of the Egyptian ascetics. “Kolobos” means “dwarf”, for he was of little stature. He came to Scetis with his brother Daniel and, with the greatest zeal, devoted himself to such asceticism that Daniel had to urge him to moderation. John was a disciple of St. Pambo, and was later […]
It reached my ears that, as it seems, you consider my sermons very strict and believe that today no one should think this way, no one should be living this way and therefore, no one should be teaching this way. “Times have changed!” How glad I was to hear this. This means that you listen carefully […]
The Servant of Christ, Hierax, as well as Cronius and several other brothers, told me the story I am going to tell you about Paul the Simple. He was a peasant farmer of transparently innocent and simple life, and he had taken a most beautiful woman for a wife who nevertheless was of very lax morals. Led by providence […]
Let us now keep the feast, my brethren, for as our Lord then gave notice to His disciples, so He now tells us beforehand, that “after [some] days is the Passover” (Matthew 26:2), in which the Jews indeed betrayed the Lord. But we celebrate His death as a feast, rejoicing because we then obtained rest from […]
They say: “We can pray at home”. Thou art deceiving thyself, O man! Of course, one can pray at home. But it is impossible to pray there as in church, where such a multitude of hearts are uplifted to God, merging into one unanimous cry. Thou wilt not be so quickly heard while praying to the Master by thyself, […]
A thick rope is made from thin, fibrous strands of thread. One thin fiber cannot hold you tied nor can it strangle you. For you will easily break it and free yourself from it. If you are tied by a thick rope, you can be held bound and even be strangled by it. Neither can you […]
1. A devout prince, upon hearing of the mortification of St. Moses, went with his retinue into the desert to see him. Informing Moses that the prince was coming to his monastery, Moses quickly ran out and began to flee and to hide somewhere, but he unexpectedly encountered the high-ranking visitors. “Where is the cell of […]