It is not astonishing that we surname the Virgin "the gate"

[Mary Naeem]

HH Pope Shenouda III





The gate of life, the gate of deliverance:

It is not astonishing that we surname the Virgin "the gate", because the Church also was surnamed "the gate". Our father Jacob said about Bethel: "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!" (Gen. 28:17).