My Beloved Brother, Do You Want To Be Perfect

[Mary Naeem]

By H.H. Pope Shenouda III

My Beloved Brother, Do You Want To Be Perfect?


Do you want your soul to be released into a place where there are no bonds nor restrictions? Then, first of all, you have to rid yourself of everything, of every desire, knowledge and feeling which the world may have implanted within you.


You have to first deny yourself, and to stand before God as nothing.. know your real self.. Who are you? Are you not a mere handful of the dust of the earth..? You are even less than the dust.. You are nothing.. There was time when you were not.. while the world existed.. without you.. Then God made you out of nothing'. First He created the dust.. then He made you of the dust. Why then do you exalt yourself Who are you to be exalted? Lower your head in bashfulness and humility, for you are nothing.. Stand before God broken-hearted and humiliated in spirit and remember your origin..