The difficult trial that befell on Job was very harsh on him. It had the element of surprise, comprehensiveness to all what he possessed, and severe loss that appears to be unrecoverable. As to Job, he submitted himself to God and kneeled down saying, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there… the Lord gave, and the Lord as taken away, Blessed be the name of the Lord.” (Job 1:21). When his wife complained about the situation and incited him to complain to God, he answered her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10)

+ He is the Good Shepherd. Therefore, His care guarantees the best and utmost happiness for me.  

Praise is a heavenly life:

Freedom in Christ is the true freedom, as the Lord Jesus emphasized: “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36) It is not a political or material freedom, but rather, it’s the freedom of the spirit from the dominance of desires and wickedness, as the Lord said: “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.” (John 8:34).

The Church is a divine-human institution in the midst of the world, and a living Embassy for heaven on earth that receives messages from heaven and broadcasts it to all hearts in all languages.

+ The cross is the only way that leads to Resurrection and Life for it leads man in the narrow path, and therefore, it makes him steadfast in the road of eternal life.

There is a unique incident about the Lord Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Luke that was not mentioned by any of the other Evangelists. It is mentioned in the ninth chapter as follows:

Last Thursday, we celebrated the feast of Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the heavens. It is one of the major feasts of the Lord according to the rite of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

As we live the period of the Holy Fifties, we would like to briefly talk about the sacrament of Baptism which is death and resurrection with Christ, and through it, we acquired new life.

Today, we commemorate the departure of the great Patriarch, Saint Athanasius the apostolic, the 20th pope of the see of Saint Mark the evangelist.

Today, we celebrate the commemoration of our great evangelist St Mark to whom we owe our knowledge of Christ, and we are honored that we are his sons in the faith.

On this day, we celebrate the Martyrdom of St. George, the Prince of the Martyrs. This feast usually falls every year during the Holy Fifty days in which we live the joys of Resurrection and triumph over death which are given to us through Christ Jesus.