We would like to send our condolence to all our sons and daughters on the loss of our father the Patriarch Pope Shenouda III. It was H.H. who blessed us by opening up our monastery and it was him who ordained us to the monastic order. We have therefore dedicated this edition of our newsletter to the memories of our monastery and the monks of the monastery in photos with this great father of the church.
We would also like to thank all those who have sent us messages of condolences by phone or email. May the prayers of Pope Shenouda be with you all.
Find Attached the Holy week time table for this year.
God Bless you all,
Bishop Anba Daniel
Bishop and Abbot of St Shenouda Monastery
Sydney, Australia
Articles:
Obituary of Pope Shenouda III
Farewell Message
St Shenouda the Archimandrite - The Righteous One Has Not Died
This issue is about one of the sacraments of the Orthodox Church that is often the hardest to take part in yet it is the most fulfilling. We hope you enjoy it.
We apologies for the irregular timing for sending our newsletter in the last few months. We hope to be on track in the future.
God Bless you all,
Bishop Anba Daniel
Bishop and Abbot of St Shenouda Monastery
Sydney, Australia
Articles:
H.G. Bishop Mattaous - The Sacrament of Repentance and Confession
Daniel Ayad - What stops us from Confession?
Bishop Kallistos Ware - Approaching Christ the Physician The True Meaning of Confession
This month issue is about the monastic Spirituality of the Syrian Church, we hope you enjoy it. This issue was inspired by Met Malki’s (The Metrepolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church) Visit to the monastery last December. Bishop Anba Daniel and the fathers of the monastery thank H.E. Met Malki very much for his visit. H.E. has promised to make this a yearly event. Go to our website to download the talk by H.E.
God Bless you all,
Bishop Anba Daniel
Bishop and Abbot of St Shenouda Monastery
Sydney, Australia
Articles:
H.H. Mor Ignatius Yacoub III - The Syrian Orthodox Church: Its contributions to the ascetic life
St Isaac the Syrian - On How the Beauty of Monastic Life Is Preserved and On How It Can Be a Means for God to Be Glorified
Patrik Hagman - Fasting as the Beginning of All Virtues
First of all, we wish all our readers a Happy New Year and a Merry Christmas. May the blessing of these festive days be renewed and multiplied in us every year.
This month issue deals with some of the questions or misunderstandings that the Protestants have towards monasticism. We have also attached the prayer program for the upcoming festive season.
During the last month we had the pleasure of having a bishop and a group of youth from the Indian Orthodox Church, a sister church that shares an apostolic origins. In this issue we will explore the history and saints of this apostolic sister church.
We also have attached a letter of congratulation to H.H. Pope Shenouda III for his 40th anniversary as a Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Sea of St Mark.
In the month of December we will have a special youth event. We will have the pleasure of having H.E. Mar Malatius Malki the bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church, another sister Church, visit our monastery accompanied by a group of youth from the Syrian Orthodox Church. See Attachment for details.
This month issue is a about our feeling of abandonment by God, the times in our lives when we feel that God is so far away from us. In this issue we answer some of the questions behind this spiritual condition through the writings of three of our great church fathers, Evagrius of Ponticus, Isaac the Syrian, and Pope Shenouda III. We hope you like it.
Also attached is an invitation to a Coptic night at Macquarie University on the 26th of October. See attachment for detail.
For those interested in enrolling in the online Masters of Art in Coptic Studies, for next year (starting in March 2012) this is a good time to do so. Also make sure you checkout all the other study option.
During the month of September we celebrate the Coptic New Year which is associated with the Martyrs. The life of martyrdom is not as we often think a thing of the past, as we hear daily of people dying for their Orthodox faith in Egypt and many other countries around the world. In this issue we will briefly present a few examples of martyrs who chose to die rather than defile their bodies. Then we will shed light on who is the martyr and how can we share in the lives of martyrs. Finally we will discuss how the early monks viewed the monastic life as a spiritual martyrdom.
For this occasion, we have also posted two lives of saints who were martyred in the third century A.D.
St Dymiana and the 40 virgins, which is written and edited by the nuns of St Dymiana Convent in El Barary. We Thank them warmly for providing us with the text to post for everyone to read.
Sts Perpetua and Felicity, who were martyred in the beginning of the third century. The text is one of the ancient martyr text that was written by St Perpetua herself.
God Bless you all,
Bishop Anba Daniel
Bishop and Abbot of St Shenouda Monastery
Sydney, Australia
Articles:
Bishop Youanis - Martyrs for the sake of Chastity
Fr Anthony St Shenouda - Who is a Martyr ?
Edward Malone O.S.B - Monastic Life as Spiritual Martyrdom
This month’s issue is about reading the Bible which is the lifeline of our Christian life. We have previously published many articles about this topic yet we have by no means covered all it aspects.
God Bless you all,
Bishop Anba Daniel
Bishop and Abbot of St Shenouda Monastery
Sydney, Australia
Articles:
St Basil the Great - The Study of Scripture is an Instruction for Life
