وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

البابا غبريال الثالث ال77

[Mary Naeem]

الشهيد اسحق الدفراوى

[Mary Naeem]

القديس العظيم الانبا باسيليوس أسقف قيسارية

[Mary Naeem]

يسوع أعظم وأحن أب

[Mary Naeem]

أجبني ياإلهي الصالح عندما أدعوك

(مز 4: 1)

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


Jesus is the Creator


With Respect to Him Being the Creator
Without controversy, God is the Creator, and the story of creation commences with the statement "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). The first chapter of Genesis explains how God created all things. In the book of Isaiah, God says "I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself" (Is. 44:24), and "I, the Lord, do all these things" (Is. 45:7)

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


However, there are other verses in the Holy Bible that refer to Christ the Lord as the Creator:
1. (Jn. 1:3): St. John the Evangelist says about the Lord Jesus Christ "All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." Here the Evangelist does not only mention that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Creator but also that none of the creation was made without him" (Jn. 1:10).

2. (Heb. 1:2): St. Paul the Apostle says "He made the worlds."
3. (Col. 1:16): St. Paul also says "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him."
4. (1 Cor. 8:6): The Apostle also says "…through whom are all things and through him we live."

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III




The miracle of feeding the five thousand men from five loaves and two fish (Lk. 9:10-17). In this miracle, the Lord created matter which had not existed with which He fed the thousands. What odds to the power of this miracle is the fact that all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets were taken up. From where did all the leftover fragments come? It was matter newly created by the Lord Jesus Christ. This great miracle is mentioned by the four Evangelists.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



The miracle of changing water into wine in Cana of Galilee (Jn. 2). This miracle is also an act of creation because water consists of oxygen and hydrogen only, so from where did the alcohol and the other constituents of wine come? The Lord Jesus Christ created all these elements in this miracle. The power of this miracle is that it happened by Christ’s mere inner will, without him doing any action or blessing or even giving an order to the water to change into wine. He only said " ‘Fill the water pots with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, 'Draw some out now' " (Jn.2:7,8). Thus the water changed to wine merely by His will. He willed to create the substance of wine and it was created, even without a command.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



Granting sight to the man born blind (Jn.9), Here the Lord Jesus Christ created eyes which had not existed before and created them out of mud, as He had created the first man. Mud, which if put on seeing eyes causes blindness, was put by the Lord into the sockets of the blind man, and two eyes were created. What adds to the power of this miracle is that the Lord ordered the man to go and wash in the pool of Siloam. Normally, washing mud dissolves it, but in this miracle, when the man washed with water, the mud was reinforced in his sockets as eyes and the water tied them with blood vessels, muscle and tissue. And the man born blind said to the Jews: "Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind' (Jn.9:32).