A fitting hymn of honor, praise and glory is always due, from every creature under heaven, to that remarkable, all-glorious and truly great mistress of all the...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 25, 2011 1:48 am
The Incarnate Word is the center of a phenomenon that we can describe as a circle or spiral. At the center or along the central axis is the Incarnate Word. ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 28, 2011 4:07 pm
Pharaohs Festival 3rd St. Promenade (between Broadway and Santa Monica Blvd) in Santa Monica Labor Day Weekend (Sunday, September 4th and Monday, September 5th...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 29, 2011 11:54 pm
“Nothing, whether it is good or bad, happens to a person by blind chance. There is a provident God who steers the affairs of the world, and with each one of...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 30, 2011 3:43 am
One who has humility with tears scorches the demons, and they cannot them come near him. Abba Isaiah, Matericon ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 1, 2011 3:04 am
God is one and Christ is one, and his Church is one; one is the faith, and one is the people cemented together by harmony into the strong unity of a body…....
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Sep 1, 2011 8:41 pm
Maker of the Universe, O Lord who alone have power over seasons and times: bless this year with Your bounty, preserve our country in safety and keep Your...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 8, 2011 1:55 am
Rerouting… “Those who seek me diligently will find me.” Proverbs 8:17 You are invited to attend the 9th Annual Graduates & Young Professionals ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 8, 2011 2:31 am
The fathers stress that salvation does not result automatically from Orthodox doctrine alone. Doctrine is not what saves people. It simply opens the pathway ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 14, 2011 5:45 am
The same Cyril [of Alexandria] says in another place that, through communion, we are cleansed from every impurity of soul and receive eagerness and fervor to...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 23, 2011 12:14 am
Please Forward to Family and Friends! Claremont Graduate University School of Religion History of Christianity Program and the Council for Coptic Studies ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 23, 2011 12:49 am
No sinner can escape future judgment without experiencing in this life either voluntary hardships or afflictions he has not chosen. Maximos the Confessor,...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 29, 2011 7:23 pm
The means to confirm and strengthen Christian hope are prayers, especially frequent and sincere prayer, confession of our sins, frequent reading of the Word of...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 4, 2011 1:12 pm
With our minds made prudent and holy, we offer worship to that which lies hidden beyond thought and beyond being. With a wise silence we do honor to the ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 11, 2011 4:49 am
Dear brothers and sisters: Peace and grace to you and your families! Given the current Coptic situation in Egypt, we recognize the greater need for studies...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 12, 2011 7:00 am
The demons cunningly withdraw for a time in the hope that we will cease to guard our heart, thinking we have now attained peace; then they suddenly attack our...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 20, 2011 3:36 am
We are commanded to worship, not on special days, but continuously - all our life, and in all possible ways. Clement of Alexandria ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 21, 2011 10:33 pm
Abba Macarius said unto the brethren when the service in the church was ended, "Flee, brethren;" and one of the old men said, "Father, where can we flee ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 4, 2011 2:54 am
The material closet of a man who is silent embraces only the man himself, but the inner spiritual closet also holds God and all the Kingdom of Heaven, ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 15, 2011 2:35 am
Prayer gave manna to the people, and by the same prayer the just are nourished. The prayer that bound the heavens released them too, just as it had first bound...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Nov 16, 2011 2:21 pm
”Whenever the interior flame is lacking, there have to be commandments written on tablets of stone... if today we abstain from killing, lying, stealing, ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 22, 2011 4:39 am
In God there is nothing quantitative. Love, insofar as it is the divine essence, is an absolute. There is within it neither more nor less. God simply loves....
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 25, 2011 7:44 am
Paphnutius his disciple (St. Macarius of Alexandria) told us, that one day a hyena took her whelp, which was blind, and brought it to Macarius. And having ...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Nov 30, 2011 2:47 am
The invocation of the Name may be practices anywhere and at anytime. We can pronounce the Name of Jesus in the streets, in the place of our work, in our room,...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Dec 6, 2011 9:59 pm
Do not have anything more valuable than stillness, silence, and prayer. Because through these you will see God. Abba Isaiah, Instructions of Abba Isaiah to the...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Dec 12, 2011 7:53 pm
Dear brothers and sisters: Worldwide Coptic studies are candles against darkness of persecution of Copts in Egypt. We are thankful to God’s providence and...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Dec 15, 2011 3:40 am
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Dec 20, 2011 1:58 am
Humanism is altogether idolatry of the worst kind because it is the idolization of man. It is founded on the principle that man is by nature good and ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Dec 28, 2011 11:07 pm
Dear brothers and sisters: Thanks to Divine Economy, Coptic studies in Claremont made good progress in 2011 through the outstanding scholarship of Prof....
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Dec 31, 2011 2:03 am
Man is in as much need of communion with God as God is in need of nothing. For this is the glory of man: to persevere and remain in the service of God. ...
