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Clement of Alexandria sees the Church as the mother who feeds milk to her children

Clement is firmly convinced that there is only one universal Church as there is only one God the Father, one divine Word and one Holy Spirit. He calls this church the virgin mother who feeds her children with the milk of the divine Word: O wondrous mystery! One is the father of all, one also the Logos of all, and the Holy spirit is one and the same everywhere and there is only one Virgin Mother; I love to call her the Church. This mother alone had no milk, because she alone did not become woman, but she is both virgin and mother, being undefiled as a virgin and loving as a mother; and calling her children to her she nurses them with holy milk, the Logos for the children (Paed.1,6,42,1). "O graduates of His blessed tutorship! Let us [by our presence] make complete the fair countenance of the Church, and let us as children run to our good Mother. and when we have become hearers of the Word, let us extol the blessed dispensation by which man is brought up and sanctified as a chi

I Am He: The Coptic Martyrs of Libya: The Sayings of the Ma...

I Am He: The Coptic Martyrs of Libya: The Sayings of the Martyrs of Libya  Translated from the Arabic https://www.facebook.com/elkalamda7a2i2i/videos/1106228439428035/ Mother of Malak Ibrahim Samir “...

The Coptic Martyrs of Libya: The Sayings of the Martyrs’ Families

Translated from the Arabic https://www.facebook.com/elkalamda7a2i2i/videos/1106228439428035/ Mother of Malak Ibrahim Samir “We were asking God to strengthen their faith.” “I am happy that He was martyred for the Name of Christ.” “We did not dream that would have a martyr in heaven.” “Do you think that if God did not send His peace, or calmness in our heart, or comforted us by His words in the Bible would we have lived live till now?” “Christ was lighting for them heaven.” The wife of Malak Ibrahim Samir: “First of all I thank God that while they were martyred they were pronouncing the Name of Jesus Christ. This is the first thing that comforted us. The second thing comforted us is that they went to the place they deserve to go. Our Lord Christ promised us that He will prepare a place for us in heaven, He prepared a place for them in the paradise, because they died in His name, they did not deny His name. There is a beautiful verse in the Bible that says,

I Am He: Heresy of the special revelation from God "Montani...

I Am He: Heresy of the special revelation from God "Montani... : Montanism ( [1] Phrygian heresy) Mentioned in Eusebius, Church History 5.3.4;5.14-18 Historical information Dating primarily to the ...

I Am He: Heresy of the special revelation from God "Montani...

I Am He: Heresy of the special revelation from God "Montani... : Montanism ( [1] Phrygian heresy) Mentioned in Eusebius, Church History 5.3.4;5.14-18 Historical information Dating primarily to the ...

Heresy of the special revelation,extended fasting, asceticism and eschatology "The Montanist"

Montanism ( [1] Phrygian heresy) Mentioned in Eusebius, Church History 5.3.4;5.14-18 Historical information Dating primarily to the late second and early third centuries. [2] The controversy spread by 177 to Rome. Leading Teachers [3] Montanus (170 AD). He was joined shortly thereafter by two prophetesses, Maximilla (2 nd century) and Priscilla 92 nd century). Tertullian (160-220)) Who contributed in the answering of the heresy [4] Epiphanius, Panarion 48; Jerome, Letter 41. [5] Hippolytus Syntagma (lost in its original form; but in substance in later writers), Characteristic teachings [6] Montanist prophets claimed direct ecstatic revelations from God to support their teachings on disciplinary questions, especially extended hours of fasting and asceticism, and on eschatology. [7] It lived in expectation of the speedy outpouring of the holy Spirit (the Paraclete) on the Church, of which it saw the first manifestation in its own prophets and prophetesses. [