As a lamb led to the slaughter and as a sheep before the shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth... (Isaiah 53:7)

 

“Woman, behold, your son!"... Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” (John 19:26-27)

 

“Truly, I say to you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you know Me...” (Matthew 26:34)

 

"Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent - Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance..." (St. John Chrysostom)

 

 

Speak only when it is more useful to speak than to be silent... (Saint John Chrysostom)

 

حينما يبكي الله حبا

 

إجذبني وراءك فنجري - البابا شنودة الثالث

 

To love Christ, is not to preach about Him. To love Christ, is not to write about Him. To love Christ, it is to be stripped from one's own will and to go where one doesn't wish...

 

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for My sake will find it... (Matthew 16:25)

 

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven shall enter... (Matthew 7:21)

"If you love Me in the darkness, you will love Me in the light also... "

 

If you love Me, My word you will keep... (John 14:23)

 

المحبه تستر على اخطاء كثيره

 

رجل اوجاع

 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life... (John 3:16)

 

Jesus died for you in public, do not follow Him in private...

 

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends... (John 15:13)

 

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, My people lack understanding... (Isaiah 1:3)

 

 

For I desire mercy and not sacrifice... (Hosea 6:6)

 

We give thanks to You-Our Almighty King, Father of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, and we glorify You for You have made the hours of suffering of Your Only Begotten Son a time of prayer and comfort. Accept our supplications and remove the seal of our sins as it was broken at this holy hour, through the crucifixion of Your Only Begotten Son, the Saviour of our souls, our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom You destroyed the power of evil. Lord grant us an unblemished life of peace and goodness to please Your Holy and Glorified Name. Allow us to stand in front of the fearful judgement seat of Your Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Without falling into condemnation, so we may praise You with all Your saints. Eternal Father, we glorify You with Your consubstantial Son, and the Holy Spirit, giver of life, now and forever. Amen. (Prayer of Absolution of the 6th hour, Agpeya)

 

 

قامت مريم

 

In Your presence is fullness of joy... At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore... (Psalm 16:11)

 

To Him you listen...

 

 

"Love is the greatest of all treasures, without it there is nothing and with it there is everything.. It is Love alone that gives worth to all things..."

 

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father... (John 14:12)

The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day rise again... (Luke 24:7)

 

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD...” (Psalm 122:1)

 

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you... A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. A time is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering service to God... (John 15:19-20; John 16:2)

 

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He goes. It would be better for him if he had not been born... (Matthew 26:24)

 

معترفا لا برّ لي

 

 

أيها البرج العالي كيف سقطت

 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.. (Ephesians 1:3-4)

 

But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me trust You while on my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon You from birth. From my mother’s womb You have been My God... (Psalm 22:9-10)

 

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do..." (Luke 23:34)

 

Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you desired; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and take you where you do not wish to go... (John 21:18)

 

LAMENTS

 

A Name above all names...

 

Ave Maria

 

نَسْجُدُ لَكَ يَا رَبّ

 

هناك فى الصليب

 

They gave me gall for My food, and for My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink... (Psalm 69:21)

 

Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over Me but weep over yourselves and your children... Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down... (Luke 23:28; Mark 13:2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brykh Hannana (Blessed Mercy)

 

“It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves!” (Matthew 21:13)

 

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away... (Matthew 24:35)

 

الرب راعي فلا يعوزني شيء - في مراع خضر يربضني - إلى مياه الراحة يوردني - يرد نفسي يهديني إلى سبل البر من أجل اسمه - أيضا إذا سرت في وادي ظل الموت لا أخاف شرا، لأنك أنت معي - عصاك وعكازك هما يعزيانني - ترتب قدامي مائدة تجاه مضايقي - مسحت بالدهن رأسي - كأسي ريا إنما خير ورحمة يتبعانني كل أيام حياتي، وأسكن في بيت الرب إلى مدى الأيام

 

 

الرب راعي

 

He changes times and seasons; He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning... (Daniel 2:21)

 

He who is faithful in the very little is also faithful in much, and he who is dishonest in the very little is also dishonest in much... (Luke 16:10)

 

فيكِ انتصار الكنيسة

 

A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet... (Proverbs 27:7)

 

He was in the world and the world was made through Him and the world did not know Him... (John 1:10)

 

.. while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.. (Ecclesiastes 7:28)