وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
..which Has Proved Your Unconditional Love for You Have Assumed our birth, our infancy, maturity, death and the grave because there is no limits to your Ministry of Salvation.
(John:3:16-19)

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. because You Are like a fruitful tree which gives its fruits in due season. Your Cross Produced Your Burial and Your Burial Produced Your Resurrection and Your Resurrection Produced Incorruptibility and Glory Everlasting.
(Gen:3:22; John:15:1-8 & Rev:22:2).

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. which Runs like a River of Living Water to Water every grave till the time appointed for the resurrection of all us.
(John: 4:14 & 7:38)

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. because Your Body was buried wounded but emerged from the grave New and Incorruptible.
( Ps: 16:10).

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. which we receive in our baptism as a seal this seals our life in sickness and in danger and blossoms which the hope in eternal life.
(2 Corinthians 1:22 & Ephesians 1:13)

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. which Gives our post baptismal anointing the shining light of the life to come. There in the sign of the Cross which the holy Oil, we see the birth of new life that breaks like the light of day(Matthew:13-17 & John::5-7)

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. which we taste in the great mystery when we eat Your Holy Body and drink Your Precious Blood to participate in the eternal joy of your submission to death to change our death to life. The shroud of Your Burial spread the fragrance of Your Immortality
(John:6:35 & 53-58).

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus
.. which Made You Laid in the grave like all the dead, I wonder at the astonishment of the Angels and the Grief of the Father and the Endurance of the Holy Spirit. But you Creator of life Took the curse of death which we embraced to change it to restful time before we rise up in the Glory of Your Resurrection.
(Luke:24:4-7)

[Mary Naeem]

Blessed Be Your Burial Lord Jesus...
.. for at Your Baptism You Were Anointed by the Lord the Giver of life to Give us a share in Your Life and when You Were Buried in the grave your anointing carried the seal of life by which your body was sealed to give us the same seal of life
(Romans:6:3-14).

[Mary Naeem]

By H.H. Pope Shenouda III

THE ACCEPTABLE SPIRITUAL FASTING:

But maybe some would ask the Lord, as it happened at the time of Isaiah the Prophet: “Why have we fasted and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls and You take no notice?” (Is 58:3). And the Lord would reply as He did to those and say to them: “Is it a fast that I have chosen?” (Is 58:5).

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You must know, my brother, that not every fasting is acceptable before God. The Pharisee who used to fast twice a week, was not justified like the tax collector (Lk 18:12,14). The same with fasting that does not have repentance. Likewise the fasting of the sinners at the time of Jeremiah the Prophet, about whom the Lord said: “When they fast, I will not hear their cry:
and when they offer burnt offering, I will not accept them” (Jer 14:11,12). The same with the fasting of the hypocrites, who want to appear to men to be fasting (Mt 6:16-18).

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