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Bishop Daniel Visit to Thailand L-MANARA 29 Kiahk 1734 AN INITIATIVE OF THE MEDIA COMMITTEE - DIOCESE OF SYDNEY & AFFILIATED REGIONS 7thJanuary 2017 E Volume 1, Issue 228 COPTS’ NEWS Volume 2, Issue130 “I have been crucifi ed with Christ. It is no longer I who lives but Christ lives in me.” (Galatians 2:20). NEXT ISSUE: Find this issue online at 4th Febuary 2018 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: www.elmanara.org.au 29th January 2018 CONGRATULATES HE METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP BASILIOS KODSEIE The Eastern Bishops Conference recently ordained as Metropolitan the departure of the long serving serve his fl ock. and the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Antiochian Orthodox HE Metroplitan Paul Saliba we congratulates HE Metropolitan Archdiocese of Australia , New departed suddenly last year. Archbishop Basilios Kodseie Zealand and Philippians, after We wish HE a fruitful ministry to HG BISHOP DANIEL VISIT TO THAILAND Published by the Diocese of Sydney & its Affi liated Regions [email protected] 7thJanuary 2017 PASTORAL MESSAGE FOR THE GLORIOUS FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST JANUARY 2018 that “He will be great.” Let us says, Greater love has no one the table, or he who serves? Is it together look at the Greatness than this, than to lay down one’s not he who sits at the table? Yet of our Lord Christ, life for his friends, (John 15:13) I am among you as the One who A Great Master, showing us serves.” (Luke 22:26-27). We In the Name of the Father, the 1. The Manifestation of the Great Love whilst making a too, are called, to live the life of Son and the Holy Spirit. One Greatness of Christ in Scripture Great Sacrifi ce. It is indeed a humility. We must always learn God. Amen Great thing that we are able to to remember that we are from This great sight, was explained be called His friends. Only a dust and that we are in essence To the beloved and blessed by St. Paul, by the great mystery Great God would be able to do only strangers in this world. Fathers the Priests and my of godliness, the manifestation this. As a result, we will always c) Integrity: Honesty in our beloved Congregation of the of God, in the fl esh, as we be indebted to God and together service requires us to practice Diocese of Sydney and its read 1 Timothy 3:16, And we pray that from today, he may the life we preach before Affi liated Regions, Today we without controversy great is the be born in our hearts to begin spreading the good news to celebrate one of the most mystery of godliness: God was to live the Great journey that He others. We too, from this are able joyous occasions in the Coptic manifested in the fl esh. We know walked. to be called Great, not in our eyes Orthodox Church “The feast of that Moses prophesised about 3. His Great Teachings: only but in front of Our Father in Nativity of Jesus Christ”. I wish this when he saw the burning Christ, as our loving teacher Heaven. As Christ said to His you, all goodness and peace bush and described it as a “great gave us Great Teachings to own disciples “For assuredly, I and I pray to the Lord Jesus sight.” The manifestation of God abide and live by on this earth. say to you, till heaven and earth Christ that He grants you all a in the fl esh is a reminder of Although many of these are pass away, one jot or one tittle blessed feast and that He may God’s love for us. This is indeed unappreciated, I will discuss will by no means pass from the fi ll your lives with true hope and one of the greatest mysteries, the importance of three of these law till all is fulfi lled. Whoever all spiritual blessings. that God became fl esh in order great teachings and hope we therefore breaks one of the Tonight we celebrate the birth to give us salvation. This only may be able to practice them least of these commandments, of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the became possible because of the together and teaches men so, shall be body and also His Birth within greatness of Christ and the gift a) Repentance: - Christ directed called least in the kingdom of each and every one of us. We that Christ provided by becoming us to the wondrous act of heaven; but whoever does and join with the angels and the man. As St Athanasius says, salvation through repentance. teaches them, he shall be called heavenly hosts chanting “Glory “But the indwelling of the Word Christ highlights ‘I desire mercy great in the kingdom of heaven. to God in the Highest and on loosed it from its natural ability, and not sacrifi ce.’ For I did not (Matthew 5:18-19) earth peace.” so that no corruption could not come to call the righteous, but At this years message, I hope to touch it.” As a result, let us treat sinners, to repentance.” (Matthew May Christ our True King grant talk to you about the Greatness this gift as great and treasure it 9:13). A life of transformation that we may be all called to of Christ. Archangel Gabriel to pursue the life of greatness begins when any person wilfully Greatness this day. By practising at the Annunciation described with Christ. presents themselves to Christ the example that Christ gave Christ as “Great” when she said, 2. Reasons for Christ’s in repentance. That person will us as the Great teacher and “ Greatness undoubtedly never be the same, the Great lessons he gave us, And behold, you will conceive growing in the life of saintliness. we too may be called Great in in your womb and bring forth We know that Christ was unique. An amazing example in Scripture front of the Throne of God. By a Son, and shall call His name One of the reasons He was able of this is the story of Zacchaeus doing this, we can prioritise our JESUS. He will be great, and to accomplish the great mystery who met Christ and was never spiritual life, pursue the life of will be called the Son of the of salvation was because He was the same person again. righteousness for ourselves and Highest; and the Lord God will without sin, and as a result, He b) Humility: A Great teaching be a living Christ in our hearts give Him the throne of His father will save us from our sins. This Christ gave us was one he and for the people around us. David. And He will reign over was assured to us by the Angel showed us through his words As we are celebrating the the house of Jacob forever, and Gabriel to the righteous Joseph, and through His example – Christmas this year 2018, we of His kingdom there will be no when she says “And she will Humility. He was the Greatest are fi lled with mourning and end.” (Luke 1:31-33) bring forth a Son, and you shall and most Humble Servant. sadness, at the latest events, From this verse alone, we call His name JESUS, for He Christ taught us that through aff ecting our brothers and sisters are shown fi ve signifi cant will save His people from their ones image of humility, they are in Atfi h, Helwan, in El Oumrania, characteristics and descriptions sins.” (Matthew 1:21). However, truly able to draw others around and in many churches in Egypt. of Our Lord Christ. However, let what we come to realise is that him or her to repentance. As Some of them, in Atfi h, will us contemplate on the fi rst one this journey to save us, the lost Christ said to His disciples, “he not pray the Christmas in their and by God’s Grace we can sheep from sin began the day who is greatest among you, let beloved church, which had contemplate on other ones in when He gave Himself willingly him be as the younger, and he been destroyed from inside, future years. The fi rst description on the cross out of his own love who governs as he who serves. by the extremist Muslims, that the Archangel says is for us. As St John the Beloved For who is greater, he who sits at some of them, in Helwan and 2 [email protected] 29st Kiahk 1734 Copts’ News in Eloumrania (Geza), will not who sees, who hears, and who My beloved children: May the Australia, its people and its experience the joy of Christmas, knows, as we read in Exodus blessings of the Holy Nativity of Government, and that the entire as their relatives and beloved 3:7New King James Version Our Lord Jesus Christ be with you world including our motherland ones, had been killed, again by (NKJV),7 And the Lord said: “I and dwell within you through the Egypt may prosper in His Name. the extremist Muslims, these have surely seen the oppression intercessions of the Ever Virgin May the Lord of all be with you three tragic events happened in of My people who are in Egypt, the All-Holy Theotokos Saint all. December 2017. and have heard their cry because Mary together with all the choirs We feel, with the feeling of our of their taskmasters, for I know of the saints, and through the I wish you all happiness in this brothers and sisters, who are their sorrows.
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