Overcoming Sin

“Do not fall into despair because of stumbling. I do not mean that you should not feel contrition for them, but that you should not think them incurable. For it is more expedient to be bruised than dead. There is, indeed, a Healer for the man who has stumbled, even He Who on the Cross asked that mercy be shown to His crucifiers, He Who pardoned His murders while He hung on the Cross. ‘All manner of sin,’ He said, ‘and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men,’ that is, through repentance.”

St. Isaac the Syrian

Overcoming Sin“Do not fall into despair because of stumbling. I do not mean that you should not feel contrition for...
Posted by Australian Copts on Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Bearing The Cross‬

A cross of rough - hewn timber,
For our salvation planned,
Is laid down at the feet of
The sinless Son of God. 

Beneath a cross our Maker
Lies humbled in the dust,
The One upon whose shoulders
Rests all the universe. 

A cross against the sky outlined
Now bears the Holy One.
He takes away our sin and guilt,
And we receive a crown. 

Bearing The Cross A cross of rough - hewn timber,For our salvation planned, Is laid down at the feet of The sinless...
Posted by ‎Australian Copts أقباط استراليا‎ on Friday, April 10, 2015