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Sayings of Fr. Bishoy Kamel |
Baptism
+ The sacrament of
Baptism is the mystery of forming a big family, that is born from above
and has its hopes and directions fixed, spiritually.
+ Baptism is the
water that flowed from the side of Jesus on the cross. The water of
Baptism gained its power of purification from the water of Your Divine
Side.
+ Jesus Christ
freed us from the slavery of Satan by the cross, so we can be His
children. This occurs to us by the power of the cross through the Baptism
and the renounciation of the devil.
+ The renounciation of the devil, the leader of this world, implies that we have
another home in heaven, and our life on earth is sojournment.
+ Our pleasure is
not of this foreing world, but in heaven.
+ We live on earth
but we are citizens of heaven, so we behave in a way that satisfies our
Heavenly Father, not the world.
+ Any Christian
that forgets this truth, the truth of being sojourners, will be enticed by
worldly matters and hindered in his path, thus, going astray.
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The Church
+ It is the source
of everlasting love for everyone: love for the congregation, love for the
sinners, love for the poor, and love for those who persecute it.
+ The Church is
always in need for martyrs of love and martyrs that preserve its unity.
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Death
+ Death is
frightening and extremely terrifying, but the more our lives are
amalgamated with the Lamb's Blood, the more our departing would be joyous
and surrounded with angels.
+ The fear of
death will accompany the person until he puts the ego to death, and only
then will he experience the life of resurrection.
+ Tribulations in
Christianity are not resolved when they end, but only when the Lord
surmounts them with us, carries the cross, and always remains with us.
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Faith
+ Faith is the
power that moves our ship through the raging sea of this world.
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The Holy Bible
+ Neglecting the
Holy Bible is very dangerous to our understanding of the Church
Sacraments, its prayers and worships.
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Humility and Ego
+ The ego is the
origin of every calamity in the Church.
+ Humility = a
fixed branch on the Body of Christ. (John 15:1,2)
+ Sacrificing the
self is abiding in Christ. It is the disappearance of the ego that allows
the branch to live in the vine and feel its unity with the rest of its
members. This is the only path that leads to humility.
+ Awareness of my
ego and pride scares me, because it means that I am separated from the
Body of Christ. It scares me because it means that the branch was cut off
the vine, and it is liable to dry and become isolated from the Head, and
that is why it feels that it is a separate entity.
+ The ego equals a
dried branch that is separated from the head.
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Jesus is the Heart of the
World
+ Jesus is the
beating heart of the world, but through its foolishness, the world pierced
His heart. Thus, it condemned itself to death.
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Love
+ There is no love
for Christ without preaching.
+ God manifests
Himself to those who seek Him with love.
+ Anything that
man owns decreases if it is divided and distributed to others, except
love, which increases the more it is given to others.
+ Hatred is death
and love is life. "We have passed from death to life, because we love
the brethern." (I John 3:14)
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Praising
+ Coptic singing
is a conversation with the name of salvation (Jesus Christ's name) and it
is not just an ordinary kind of singing.
+ The Coptic
fathers emphasized the repetition of the name of Jesus for the salvation
of man to the extent that they not only made it the center of their
worship, but they reached the point of 'breathing' it, "For there is no
other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
(Acts 4:12)
+ Truly, hymns are
delightful, enjoyable means of worship and spiritual exaltation similar to
that of the angels.
+ The praise of
the three young men combines in one scene its presence in this painful,
temporary world with its presence in the blissful eternity. While it is in
the fire of the world, it is also in the presence of God and heavenly joy.
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Repentance
and Confession
+ Repentance is
not the work of man, as prophet Jeremiah said, "Make me repent my Lord and
I shall repent."
+ The secret of
penitence is the constant work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Bride
in order to wash her (with the Blood), sanctify and justify here in the
Name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God (1 Cor. 6:11).
+ When the church
calls for penitence, she sweeps her house searching for the last penny and
the Holy Spirit casts His rays of light on the saved souls so that they
repent (and be found).
+ The Spirit
cannot give the fruit of righteousness except to the penitent souls.
+ Penitence is the
most important sign of love.
+ The more a
penitent realizes he has grieved the Lord who loves him and that Jesus'
Cross was mainly raised to wash his sins and redeem his soul, the more
true and rightful his penitence is.
+ There is an
insincere penitence which deceives the soul, and a geniune one which is
the work of the Holy Spirit.
+ If repentance is
neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he
lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.
+ Penitence does
not stop at regretting sin, but it takes another step forward which is to
start a new life with God!
+ Repentance
ranges from regretting obvious sins like murder, adultery, abuse,
swearing, and stealing to the realization that not loving (loving your
brother as yourself) is a murder. "Whoever hates his brother is a
murderer."(1 John 3:15) and that an evil look is adultery and the love of
praise is stealing God's glory.
+ The sacrament of
penitence is perpetually bonded with Resurrection, without seperation for
an instant.
+ Confession is
not just quoting sins, but repentance and mourning: Jesus said, "Blessed
are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." (Matthew 5:4)
+ Continuous
confession purifies the soul and leads it to new life, especially when it
becomes worthy of receiving the Lord's Body and Blood.
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The Sacraments
+ The Church
Sacraments are the living gospel.
+ The Sacraments
are the living gospel by which the Church lived for thirty years. (from
30-60 A.D.)
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Silence
+ How lovely,
sweet, and powerful is silence if we are carrying the cross with Jesus.
How tough, painful and unjust is silence if the shadow of the cross
disappears from our lives.
+ The servant
serves, works, speaks and builds until he sees a sign to be silent. Then,
he is silent to work internally with love -- through the hidden and
personal service -- and praying away from others. He is silent, but he
works without opening his mouth.
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Sojournment
+ While the
children of God sojourn on earth their eyes are directed toward heaven,
until they completely depart from the flesh and their time of sojournment
on earth comes to an end.
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Vigilance
+ Vigilance is a
spiritual pleasure, that is impossibe to get used to except through the
praises of the Church.
+ Vigilance is
practicing the presence with God.
+ Vigilance is
preparing for a continuous meeting with the Heavenly Groom.
+ In the
beginning, vigilance is a difficult practice, but through the love of
Christ and His grace, it turns into a desirable and enjoyable habit that
man searches for with diligence.
+ Vigilance is
converted to a heavenly night that is spent around the subject of Divine
Incarnation.
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Do Not
Worry About Tomorrow...
Do not worry about
tomorrow, you are free so why worry?
Does this
contradict planning for the future? No.
Worry about
materialistic matters of the future, salary, income, the expenses for the
children, search for outside work, and/or emigration; all these things are
worry about tomorrow, and tomorrow is in the hands of God. Note that
emigration or the search for outside work is not always the result of
fear, but I mean fear which result from worry.
Great anxiety to
get high marks for a Certificate, is one kind of worry.
But making effort
towards studying while submitting and giving thanks to God is a kind of
freedom in Christ.
If one plans for
himself, he should accept responsibility for the difficulties of the trip
and on the other hand if he leaves the planning to God, God will dispose
every stage of the trip.
Children of God do
not pay much attention to time, they always live in submissiveness to God.
No matter how long they wait, the sun is there behind the cloud.
As soon as one
surrenders his life (dies) he starts a new life where the Lord is guiding
the rudder of his boat, he will not be afraid of evil tidings (Psalm
112:7).
COMMUNING
My Lord Jesus, I want my will to melt in Yours and I believe that all
things work together for good (Romans 8:28).
Let me strongly believe that the hairs of my head are counted in front of
You, give me to submit to Your will and not to mine.
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من أقوال أبونا
بيشوي كامل
+
ربى
يسوع أنت الذي تعطى الماء الحي الذي يشرب منه لا يعطش إلى الأبد، ثم بعد ذلك
تعطش إلىّ.. سبحانك ربى.!!!!!. يا لمحبتك لي أنا الساقط!!!!!!!!
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ليس هناك قوة في الوجود تربط يسوع إلا
خطيتي... لأنه صنع هذا محبة لي. إذا لم تكن هذه الرباطات إلا رباطات خطيتي
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يا
أبتاه.. الآن أعطني أن أقرأ في كل حركة طول يومي، ما هي مشيئتك، و أتممها بأسرع
ما يكون، و بفرح عظيم. عندئذ سأرى من حيث لا أدري إني في حضن أبي ...
+يا
أبتاه.. أعطني أن أكون سريع الاستجابة لإلهامات روحك القدوس فيّ عن طريق
الصلاة....
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إن
حياتي ستظل بلا معنى و لا طعم و لا فائدة إن لم
تعلن مشيئتك فيّ لأتممها
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إن
أخطر لحظة فى حياتى هى التى أنسى فيها التفكير في المسيح ... انها لحظة
الانحلال و الضعف، و التعرض للسقوط فى أبسط خطية
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ما أقواك أيتها التوبة و ما أروعك،
انك أروع أيقونة للقيامة
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ربنا
يسوع غلب العالم لأنه لم يكن للعالم شئ فيه. إذا كان للعدو جواسيس داخل بلدي
كيف أستطيع مواجهته؟
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نحن
نحمل قوة لا نهائية أمام عالم مادي مغلوب رغم مظهره القوي، هذا هو إيماننا
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يارب..
أنت ترشدنا، و لكننا نتركك و نبحث عن إرشاد العالم و تعزيته، ثم نفشل فنجدك كما
كنت. عندئذ نحس بخطئنا نحوك
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أنت
يا الهى أب... كلك حبك للبشرية و سكبت روح حبك فىّ ، و هذا هو الطريق الوحيد
لمعرفتك و الحياة معك
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الخادم
هو إنسان غسل يسوع قدميه القذرتين، و يغسلها كل يوم... من أجل ذلك هو يجول مع
يسوع من كل قلبه ليغسل أقذار كل الناس
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ربي..
أعطني أن أبكي على خطية أخي مثلما أبكي على خطيتي لأن كلاهما جرحاك يا حبيبي
يسوع
......
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إن
النفس الساقطة عندما تقوم تشع منها قوة هائلة من قوة قيامة الرب يسوع
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يا
نفسي اهتمي بداخلك لتعجبي يسوع، العريس السماوي لا يهمه نوع الموضة بل يهمه
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