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“Often we say, ‘But if He only heard me, He would take my trouble away; I appeal to Him, but I still have trouble.’ Just hold steady and keep to His ways, and when you are in trouble He does hear you. But remember He is a physician, and there is still some diseased tissue in you. You cry out, but He goes on cutting, and He does not remove His hand until He has done all the cutting He knows to be necessary. In fact, it is a cruel doctor who listens to the patient’s cries and leaves the festering wound untouched. And think how mothers rub their children down vigorously in the bath for their own good. The little ones cry out in their mothers’ hands, do they not? Does that mean the mothers are cruel in not sparing them, in ignoring their tears? Are they not really full of tender love? All the same, the children cry, and they are not let off. So too, our God is full of charity and love, but He seems to be deaf to our entreaty because He means to heal us and spare us for all eternity.” – St. Augustine
Readings & Sermon:
- 3rd Sunday of Epip: (7/25/21)
Church Announcements
- Breakfast Service
- Breakfast service has resumed
- Sign up available in front of the kitchen.
- Summer Nights
- Summer Nights for College & GYP continues on Thursdays.
This Week’s Schedule
- Monday:
- Midnight Praises: 7:30-9:00pm
- Tuesday:
- Bible Pleasure at 7:00pm
- Wednesday:
- Liturgy: 8:00-10:30am
- Thursday:
- Liturgy: 7:30-10:00am (Arabic)
- Friday:
- Liturgy: 8:00-10:30am
- Saturday:
- Hymns Class: 5:00-6:00pm
- Sunday School: 6:00-7:00pm
- Vespers: 7:00-7:30pm.
- Midnight Praises: 7:30-9:30pm
- Sunday:
- Liturgy: 7:30-11:00am
- Liturgy: 7:30-11:00am