Congratulations, Jonah, on this wonderful

[Mary Naeem]

By H.H. Pope Shenouda III



When Jonah's faith reached that wonderful level, the Lord ordered the whale to vomit him onto dry land.

That whale acted with great discipline according to an assuring predestined Divine plan. It appeared in the proper time and at the right place in order to carry Jonah in its belly. It was as though this prophet was being taken from an open ship liable to being covered and drowned by the waves, into an enclosed and protected ship invulnerable to water and waves. In due time the whale vomited Jonah onto dry land at the place which God defined. There it left him unharmed after it had fully completed its errand.

Congratulations, Jonah, on this wonderful submarine in whose bosom you lived for a while. It has brought to your mission.