وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III



One of the surnames by which The Virgin has been described is "Theotokos"
that is: "the mother of God". This surname has been called upon her by the sacred œcumenical council of Ephesus in 431 AD. Saint Kirillos the Great insisted on that surname in his response to Nestorius......
Saint Elizabeth addressed her with that surname "the mother of my Lord" (Luke 1:43).

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III




One of her surnames is also: "the golden censer".

We call her "Te shury" that is the censer in Coptic; and sometimes "the censer of Aaron".......... As for the fire which it contains inside her, coal in it symbolises the human nature of Christ, and fire symbolizes His divine nature, as it has been said in the Holy Bible: "our God is a consuming fire" (Heb. 12:29).

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III




One of her surnames is also: "the golden censer".





The censer symbolizes the womb of The Virgin where divinity was united with humanity. The censer being of gold, that points to the greatness and the purity of The Virgin. Regarding the purity and the sanctity of The Virgin, we call The Virgin in her hymns "the golden censer" (Te shury ennub, in Coptic).

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III




One of her surnames is also: "the golden censer".

The Virgin is also surnamed "the second heaven"
because as heaven is the abode of God,
so The Virgin Mary was an abode of God
during the sacred pregnancy.

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III




The Virgin is also surnamed "the city of God":

The prophecy in the psalm is realized in her: "Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God" (Ps 87:3). Or what was said of her "the city of the great King", or certain prophecies which were said about Jerusalem, are realized in her..........or Zion as it was also said in the psalm: "And of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her; and the most High Himself shall establish her" (Ps. 87:5).

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III




In this quality, she was surnamed "the vine where was found the cluster of life"

that is Christ. The Church asks for her intercession with that surname in the prayer of the third hour, saying to her: "O mother of God, you are the true vine who bears the cluster of life"........

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III



By this quality of motherhood, she has other surnames of which we mention:




The mother of the true light, considering that it has been said of the Christ our Lord, that He is "the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world" (John 1:9).

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III



By this quality of motherhood, she has other surnames of which we mention:




Likewise she was surnamed "the golden

lamp" because she bears the Light

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III



By this quality of motherhood, she has other surnames of which we mention:






"The mother of the Holy One", considering

that the angel, when he announced her with

the birth of Christ, said to her: "also, that
Holy One who is to be born will be called
the Son of God" (Luke 1:35).

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III



By this quality of motherhood, she has other surnames of which we mention:






"The mother of the Savior", because the

Christ our Lord is the Savior of the world: "and you shall call His name Jesus,
for He will save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21).