I Am He

“May the   Lord   see and avenge!” NRSV , “The   Lord   look on   it,   and repay!” NKJ “The   Lord   look upon it, and require it.” KJV, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.” NIV [ 34 ] Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify,  and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,   [ 35 ] that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah the son of Barachi'ah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.   [ 36 ] Truly, I say to you, all this will come upon this generation.     In the Gospel according to St. Matthew 23:34-36   [ 49 ] Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, `I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom  they will kill and persecute,'   [ 50 ] that the blo

The Coptic Confessors (1) Article Written by HG Bishop Macarius, The General Bishop of Our Coptic Orthodox Church in the Upper Egypt Governorate of Al Minya and Abu Korkas  on August 29, 2013 , translated by F r. Bishoy Lamie , edited by Phoebe Farag Scanned from El-Keraza (The Preaching) magazine, official newspaper of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, Aug. 30, 2013 pictures from top left: Burning the diocese of Coptic Orthodox Dioceses Church in Sohag, St. Mary in El -Fayoum , Friends of The Holy Bible Association in El-Fayoum, The ancient (4th century) monastery of St. Mary in Dalga - Dair Mawas- Al Minya, Bottom one: girl is praying in the burned Church of St. Tadros in Al Minya The Confessor in the consciousness of the Church is the living Martyr, the difference between Martyr and confessor that both were tormented, except that the body of one was tortured while the body of the other departed life. In Al Minya we have in many places martyrs and large numbers of

Last week after the burning of the churches in Egypt, specifically in El Minya on Aug. 14, 2013, a couple decided on Sept. 2, 2013 (after about two weeks) to do their engagement ceremony in the burned church of St. Tadros in order to take the blessing of the place that witnessed to Christ. Copied from  https://www.facebook.com/angelsrosha/media_set?set=a.625584414153063.1073741844.100001045301358&type=3 On the other side here in US, new Coptic couples think about getting married in other fancy Orthodox churches. When you ask them why? They will say “ we invited many and our churches are limited in space”, or they would say,    “the other churches are going to appear nicely in the videos and photographs” or finally they will say, “This Church is few miles from the reception, we do not want people to drive a long distance,” although we are talking about few minutes difference. Copied from  http://creativeweddings.squarespace.com/creative-weddings-blog/2010/6/20/idea-t

I Am He: The Rank of Confessors, commentary by HG Bishop Ma... : The Rank of Confessors [i] Article Written by HG Bishop Macarius, The General Bishop of Our Coptic Orthodox church in the Upper Egypt ...

The Rank of Confessors [i] Article Written by HG Bishop Macarius, The General Bishop of Our Coptic Orthodox church in the Upper Egypt Governorate of El Minya and Abu Korkas  on September. 06, 2013 ( [ii]   I tried to find a picture of recent confessors but, they do not want to be known as they count themselves did nothing beside the great Love of Our Lord Jesus Christ, so I chose for you this picture from St. Tadros church after being totally burned on Aug. 14, these people prayed in spite that HG Bishop Macarius did not want to announce about this liturgy as everyone will be in danger because there was still killings and burning happening, so I thought about those in the picture that they    came to the church knowing that s/he might be a confessor or a martyr)  ----- (Beginning of the Article)  “ Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance”  Wisdom 2:19 The word confessor in Gr