But, Our Lord, did descend into Hades and brought out the souls of the righteous. He opened the gates of Paradise, and He is clear to the thief and Mankind that 'this day' you wil be with Me in Paradise.
My Dear Father,
I must confess, my birthday is not tomorrow. Please accept my confession.
I thought I may piggyback on your birthday and get some early well-wishes.
I'm trying to ride on your coat tails.
Actually my birthday is today (just a joke…
Happy Birthday to you;
Happy Birthday to you;
Happy Birthday dear Fr. Peter;
Happy Birthday to you.
Sana hilwa maa Yasou;
Sana hilwa maa Yasou;
Sana hilwa, Sana hilwa;
Sana hilwa, maa Yasou.
You took the fun away by giving out your age. I wa…
I have developed my own categorization of the "atheists":
Category (1): arrogant; 'I am god'.
Category (2): blaming God for some misfortune.
Category (3): trying to justify an immorality or lascivious lifestyle by ignoring the presence of God.…
There is no such thing as an atheist.
They are in a struggle with their inner being. They are trying to suppress the inner self from reaching out to the God that created it.
No matter how much they verbalize outwardly that they are atheist, they …
I think they may have been from the Sung Myung Moon Sect in S. Korea.
They tend to do the proselytizing: "two by two". This is similar to the Mormon approach.
Also, keep in mind, they are human like you.
You may have thought of negative things of Christians, which after your conversion, you renounced.
If you look at the example of St. Paul, he was an accessory to murder and a persecutor of Christians. …
Comments; video clip from St. George & St. Shenouda in Jersey City:
1. Couldn't make out from the visual it was CIA
2. Sound quality was poor
3. shocking:
a) two bishops entered and the deacons did not process them in by greeting
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Sometimes someone is ordained as a full deacon in-reserve; in the event of an untimely issue for the priest during the Liturgy.
Sometimes when a priest is very ill, there is a deacon ordained for a given church, sometimes quietly, in the event that …
I beg to disagree with everyone. I was one of the raptured. I am no longer a cyberspace phenomenon, but a heavenly phenomenon.
It's nice being up here.
I'm hanging out with St. Mark.
I also have copies that my reposed uncle passed to me from the 19th century printings.
The European labels you mention, are from which century?
I'm trying to formulate a timeline to see where the sequence may lie.
I know that Bp Gregorious was us…
The Seminary in Egypt has different compilations of the various Books of the Old Testament in Coptic. I have the Psalms in one binding, the Pentateuch, and several other books.
Bp. Gregorious, of thrice blessed memory, had supervised these compila…