Holy (Pascha) Week
Pascha (pronounced ‘ba-skh-ah’) is a Coptic word that means pass over. Paschal Week is the celebration of pass over in the Church of the...
Feast of the Theophany.
Epiphany (Koine Greek: Ἐπιφάνεια, Epiphaneia, "Manifestation", "striking appearance") or Theophany[2] (Ancient Greek: (ἡ) Θεοφάνεια,...
How long, O Lord
Last night having returned from the prayer vigil for the Martyrs of El-Botrosia Church, I was confronted with two images, starkly...
The dead man meets the Life and the Resurrection - Luke 7:11-17.
"The dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. Christ, the life and resurrection, meets him there. He...
Wilful Blindness - Matthew 12:22-28
In the Third week of the month of Paope the church reminds us of the healing of the blind, mute, demon-possessed man. When Jesus left the...
Fishers of men - Luke 5:1-11
In this Gospel of the second week of Paope, the church reminds us of our Lord calling His first apostles to their work that will change...
The Healing of the Paralytic – Mark 2:1-12
On this first Sunday of the second month of the Coptic year, the church reminds us that our salvation is not mere ideas about God, but is...
Christ is our love who forgives sins - Luke 7:36-50
In Luke's account Jesus eating with the Pharisee and forgives a sinful woman, we meet that woman who had not yet entered into communion...
Christ's Power to Change - Zaccheaus Luke 19:1-10
THE SINFULNESS OF ZACCHAEUS. St Cyril of Alexandria describes Zacchaeus who was leader of the tax collectors, as a "man entirely...
Sunday of the blind man
Excerpt from St. John Chrysostom's homily: "On zeal and piety, and on the man born blind" (amateur translation) The word of God is a...
