وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

* وهبت لأيوب سبعة بنين وثلاث بنات،
هب لي أن أكون أبًا لكثيرين.
أينما وُجدت يعمل روحك لجذب الكثيرين إليك!
لن تستريح نفسي حتى أرى العالم كله أبناءك وبناتك!

[Mary Naeem]

* هب لي شيخوخة مقدسة،
لكل يوم من أيام غربتي ثمرة روحي،
يُحسب في عينيك كألف سنة حسب وعدك الإلهي!

[Mary Naeem]

القديسة العذراء والدة الإله

[Mary Naeem]

يوما فيوما يحملنا إله خلاصنا
(مز 68: 19)

[Mary Naeem]

الصلاة تُعيد إحياء الأرواح الحزينة

[Mary Naeem]

Meditation on Church reading during the Holy Fifties:

The fathers of the church arranged and named Sundays of the Holy Fifties as they did with the Sundays of the Great Fasting.
The readings of Sundays of the Great Fasting, encourage us on doing the virtues and to repent. After the Passover (Pascha) when we are freed from the chains of sins and bondage, to walk in the Light of the Lord, "We also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation". (Romans: 5: 11)

After our true repentance we shall enjoy our spiritual resurrection on earth " Most assuredly I say to you, the hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voices of the Son of God; and those who hear will live". (John: 5: 25)

"But thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1Corinthians: 15: 57).
The Glorified Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ awards us this:

"For if we have united together in the likeliness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeliness of His Resurrection".
(Romans: 6: 5)

The reading of the Sundays of the Holy Fifties focus on the rewards we get.

[Mary Naeem]

1st Sunday, Sunday of Faith (Thomas Sunday):

Thomas had doubt about the Glorified Resurrection of the Lord. It is a sin not to fully trust in the Words of God. Satan tempted Eve to fall in this sin by introducing doubt in her thoughts by saying to her: "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree in the Garden'?" "You will not surely die". (Genesis 3:1,4)
This caused humanity to fall in the original sin.

Disciple Thomas also doubted, and today's reading shows us the reward of fully trusting and not doubting.
The Lord allowed His Disciple Thomas to doubt so that the Glorified Resurrection is confirmed to all His sons and daughters. Some fathers of the church prefer to call this Sunday (Sunday of the confirmation or Sunday of Faith).
The Lord Blessed the true believers; "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John: 20: 29)

Have blessed Holy Fifty days,

[Mary Naeem]

What does it mean that God is truth?



Any statement beginning with the words God is indicates that it is ontological in nature; that is, the statement refers to an attribute of God’s being. The attributes of God are typically categorized into two groups, with the first being nonmoral attributes (e.g., eternality, infinity, and omnipotence) and the second being moral attributes, one of which is truth. The statement God is truth speaks of God’s morality.

To say that God is truth is to acknowledge that truth itself proceeds from the nature of God. While many things can have the truth, only one thing can be the truth, with that one thing being God Himself.

Scripture refers to this fact about God directly in a number of places. For example, Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), and He called the Holy Spirit “the Spirit of truth” (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13). A more indirect affirmation that God is truth is Hebrews 6:18, which says that “it is impossible for God to lie.”

The Hebrew term for “truth” is emet, which means “truth,” “firm,” “stable,” and “faithful.” The Greek word for “truth” is aletheia, which denotes being “truthful” or “upright” or “having nothing to hide.” From these terms—and from other attributes of God that support His truthfulness such as His immutability (God cannot change), infinity, and simplicity (God cannot be partly anything)—we understand that God Himself is absolute truth. That truth will never change and can always be relied upon.

Lastly, one often overlooked aspect of truth in the Scriptures that applies to God is the synonymous relationships between righteousness and truth, and between unrighteousness and falsehood. For example, Paul refers to people who “do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness” (Romans 2:8), and he highlights the equality of unrighteousness and lies and righteousness and truth in Romans 3:5, 7. From this we learn that God’s moral attribute of truth is also tied to His attribute of holiness.

[Mary Naeem]

Any statement beginning with the words God is indicates that it is ontological in nature; that is, the statement refers to an attribute of God’s being. The attributes of God are typically categorized into two groups, with the first being nonmoral attributes (e.g., eternality, infinity, and omnipotence) and the second being moral attributes, one of which is truth. The statement God is truth speaks of God’s morality.

[Mary Naeem]

To say that God is truth is to acknowledge that truth itself proceeds from the nature of God. While many things can have the truth, only one thing can be the truth, with that one thing being God Himself.