By Fr. Moses Samaan - Parish Priest from St. Marina Coptic Orthodox Church, California, USA. Four historic Patriarchal centres – Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome – were established in the first century, and Constantinople in the fourth; yet all these five centres formed a cohesive whole of the Christian Church and were in full communion with... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Moses Samaan - Parish Priest from St. Marina Coptic Orthodox Church, California, USA. The most important thing in the lives of the faithful and those inquiring into the Orthodox faith is prayer. It is the one thing that informs and sanctifies everything else in a person’s life. Every major event and decision in the... Continue Reading →
by Fr. Matthew the Poor (Matta El-Meskeen). He who was able to reveal this relationship with Christ is St. Paul who says: “For surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given me for you, and how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Matthew the Poor (Matta El-Meskeen). The Resurrection as an unseen power granted to us through Baptism and the Holy Eucharist: We do not believe that Christ’s Resurrection is something that concerns Him only but it primarily concerns us too. Christ was risen for our sakes ‘he rose and raised us with him’ as... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. St Severus of Antioch is one of the great Fathers of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. In the decades after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD it was he, more than any other theologian, who expressed most forcefully and clearly the... Continue Reading →
By H.G. Bishop Angaelos – Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London. Feminism is one of the aspects and factors which works to distance many of us from God. As science makes us doubt the Bible, as humanism makes us doubt the existence of God, as modernism makes us doubt the power of God, as postmodernism makes... Continue Reading →
Orthodoxy is Life 