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Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
Happy Feast of Resurrection of our Lord to you all, I pray that the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is manifest in our life daily. The topic of this issue is the resurrection of our Lord and how it applies to our everyday life and to the monastic life.
Articles:
H.H. Pope Shenouda III – The Joy of the Resurrection
Fr Anthony St Shenouda – Resurrection, Monasticism, and New Creation
Fr Mathew the poor – Resurrection and sacraments
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Monasticism, new creation, Ordination, resurrection, sacraments
Message:
Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
In this issue we present different views on fasting and how the early fathers viewed fasting as physically healing rather than killing the body.
Also if you are a writer and would like to take part in a monastery project, please find out details inside and contact us by replying to this email.
Please find attached the timetable for the upcoming Holy Week.
Articles:
H.G. Bishop Serapion – Asceticism
William Harmless – Abba Poemen, the Moderate Ascetic
Patrik Hagman – Fasting as the Beginning of All Virtues
Downloads:
Ascetic, ascetisim, Fasting, isaac the Syrian
Message:
Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
This month issue deals with the monastic life in the most unexpected parts of the world, we hope you enjoy it. We also pray that you all may have a great start to Lent.
Inside this issue also are the details for our next publication.
Articles:
Theresia Hainthaler – Christian Arabs before Islam
Fr Anthony St Shenouda – A 7th Century Monastery Discovered in United Arab Emirates
Matthias Schulz – Buried Christian Empire Casts New Light on Early Islam
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Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
We would like to apologise for sending the February edition of our newsletter very late and we hope to catch up and send you the March edition very soon.
Articles:
St John Chrysostom ?- Friendship
H.G. Bishop Suriel ?- Friendship
Derek Krueger ?- Tales of Monastic Companionship
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friendship, monastic companionship, st john chrysostom
Message:
Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men (Luke 2:14)
We wish you all a very happy feast of Nativity. May the blessings and joys of Christmas be with you and your families always.
Articles:
H.H. Pope Shenouda III? – The Fear of God Objections & Reply
From the Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Mena Rizkalla -? Meditations on the Fear of God according to Saint Antony and other fathers
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Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
Congratulations to the whole church clergy and laity on the enthronement of our beloved Patriarch, pope Tawadros II, on the Throne of St Mark to be the 118th Patriarch of Alexandria. We feel that God has listened to all our prayers and fasting and rewarded us with this great gift. We pray that God may keep him on his throne for many peaceful years. We dedicate this issue of our newsletter to our Father the patriarch.
The results of the Christian Music Competition have been finalised and congratulations to all the winners. We hope to have you back next year for another competition. Click to see results
The Fundraiser dinner was a great success thanks to all the organisers and those who attended. Read special thank you letter. For those who were not able to attend and would like to share in the cost of the construction of the new project by contributing a monthly payment through Direct Debit, please download the form from HERE or from our website.
For those who would like to join us in the many upcoming feasts and the Kiahk vigil please read the time table here.
For those interested in studying the Coptic language at a biggeners level, they can do so at Macquarie University in a five day course (14th ? 18th Jan 13). for more info read here.
Articles:
Enthronement of H.H. Pope Tawadros II,
Biography of H.H. Pope Tawadros II
The Title of the Patriarch of Alexandria
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Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
It is a crucial time for the Coptic Church as the new patriarch is being selected at the same time it is a very exciting time as not many people would have witnessed such an event. The last time a Papal selection process took place was 41 years ago when our beloved Pope Shenouda III was selected for the Patriarchate. We pray and ask our Lord Jesus Christ to choose for us a man after His own heart.
We also want to remind you that the voting process for the music competition is still on. So if you have not already done so, go to our website, listen to the music by the different artists and give a stare rating to each song to your taste.
Articles:
St Dorotheos of Gaza – On the structure and harmony of the virtues of the soul
Fr Athanasius Iskander – The pursuit of virtues
St Theophan the Reclues – How long should one exercise oneself in each virtue and what are the signs of progress in it?
Downloads:
Dorotheos of Gaza, Theophan the Reclues, Virtue
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Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
This month issue is about the spiritual and monastic understanding of tears, we hope you enjoy it. Also in this issue find out more about our latest publications, Click Here.
The Fundraiser dinner is coming up on the 28th of this month please read the special note attached, Click here.
Also for those interested in attending Macquarie University special event, Coptic Night, which will have a presentation on the latest work on monastic archaeology in Egypt, Click here.
Articles:
Pope Shenouda III – Tears in the life of the saints
Youth article – A broken road
John chryssavgis – Theology of tears in the writings of John Climacus
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Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
We would like to express our condolences to our Ethiopian brothers and sisters for the loss of the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch Abune Paulos. May he remember us in his prayers.
This month we celebrate the 5th year since we started our newsletter. We would like to thank all our readers who have supported us with their feedback and prayers. We cant also forget the youth who tirelessly helped us with the development and upkeep of the emails and website as well as the talented youth who provided us with their articles on the different issues. We ask all our readers to keep this service in their prayer.
In regards to the Christian music competition we have received a great response from many young talents. Everyone will get their chance to listen and rate the songs produced by these young talents mid-October.
Also checkout CopticWorld.org, the new online platform for the Coptic Church which will facilitate all of the Church and it’s congregation’s online affairs. The following is a link to a brief video that will summarise CopticWorld.org. Also read this.
Articles:
St Gregory of Nyssa – On Virginity
Youth article – Is Monasticism for me??
Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev – MONASCTICISM
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Gregory of Nyssa, Monastic life, Monasticism, Virginity
Message:
Dear Readers,
Peace and Grace to you all,
This month we talk about a much loved book of the Bible especially by Orthodox Monks. We have also included photos from St Shenouda feast and of the many groups of youth that came during the winter holidays.
We also have two reminders:
Fundraiser dinner
Poster broacher
Music Competition
Video Promo Application form
God Bless you all,
Bishop Anba Daniel
Bishop and Abbot of St Shenouda Monastery
Sydney, Australia
Articles:
H.E. Met. Malki? -? Introduction to the Psalms
Youth Article? -? Contemplation on Psalm 23
St Basil the Great? – ?On The Psalms
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