Comments on: Lent and Lentils http://www.frantonios.org.au/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ROMANI SERGYOS http://www.frantonios.org.au/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/comment-page-1/#comment-311 ROMANI SERGYOS Tue, 19 May 2009 01:56:21 +0000 http://www.stbishoy.org.au/modules/wordpress/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/#comment-311 Halleloyea, praise the name of the Lord by your work ,amen ..our local church finaly decided to look after their family church congregation in the aspect of spiritual and social development through conferences ... i believe it is the first family conference of its kind in our whole parish ....we thank our local priests" Archangel Mikhail and St Bishoy " and all who will have input in such conferene , it is realy a great work specialy for our marginalised congregation of the western suburbs of Sydney ...........most families are happy for this great event and i beleve as others do that we started to be in the right positive direction which will bring a lot of blessed fruits to alll ... all of us look forward for more coferences to bring our church congregation together and integrate them in one Australian Coptic Community in our church ....also another church in the Sydney area did the same..they started to have a social gathering on Sunday night " some they call it club " and that for all their church congregation as one integrated one ,from all different backgrounds of the church " not Sudanese by themselves or Egyptians by themselves or whatever "to spend the night together in weekly bases , it is great work for one church community ...also a group of our church psychologists and councellars conducting a couse organised by the Australian Christian Family Asociation " a bunch of our boys and girls highly qualified psychologists and councellars " in conjunktion our theological college in aCHRISTIAN COUNCELLING course ....thanks for their volunteered time to run this course of 12 sessions in weekly basis session after work , God bless them ......i personally attending it , oh mate it is great to improve your relatioship with your family ,friends , work and others around you .... i believe it gives the person a lot of skills and the tools to deal with most problems ,conflicts and problem solving ... ..oh i believe our priests in our new parish in this part of the world will benefit a lot from it as well ....anyhow always there is room for improvement and we learn everyday ..may the holy spirit guide us alll to praise the name of the lord all the time and to strengten our Australian Copic Orthodox church and its community in faith , hope and love till thy kingdom come , amen .... Halleloyea, praise the name of the Lord by your work ,amen ..our local church finaly decided to look after their family church congregation in the aspect of spiritual and social development through conferences … i believe it is the first family conference of its kind in our whole parish ….we thank our local priests” Archangel Mikhail and St Bishoy ” and all who will have input in such conferene , it is realy a great work specialy for our marginalised congregation of the western suburbs of Sydney ………..most families are happy for this great event and i beleve as others do that we started to be in the right positive direction which will bring a lot of blessed fruits to alll … all of us look forward for more coferences to bring our church congregation together and integrate them in one Australian Coptic Community in our church ….also another church in the Sydney area did the same..they started to have a social gathering on Sunday night ” some they call it club ” and that for all their church congregation as one integrated one ,from all different backgrounds of the church ” not Sudanese by themselves or Egyptians by themselves or whatever “to spend the night together in weekly bases , it is great work for one church community …also a group of our church psychologists and councellars conducting a couse organised by the Australian Christian Family Asociation ” a bunch of our boys and girls highly qualified psychologists and councellars ” in conjunktion our theological college in aCHRISTIAN COUNCELLING course ….thanks for their volunteered time to run this course of 12 sessions in weekly basis session after work , God bless them ……i personally attending it , oh mate it is great to improve your relatioship with your family ,friends , work and others around you …. i believe it gives the person a lot of skills and the tools to deal with most problems ,conflicts and problem solving … ..oh i believe our priests in our new parish in this part of the world will benefit a lot from it as well ….anyhow always there is room for improvement and we learn everyday ..may the holy spirit guide us alll to praise the name of the lord all the time and to strengten our Australian Copic Orthodox church and its community in faith , hope and love till thy kingdom come , amen ….

]]> By: Francois http://www.frantonios.org.au/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Francois Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:06:42 +0000 http://www.stbishoy.org.au/modules/wordpress/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/#comment-310 We have really started to lose the real meaning of fasting and controlling our bodies, thoughts...etc... We now have fasting cheese (including feta!), Chocolate, sausages....the list goes on.... We really do need to get back to basics I think... We have really started to lose the real meaning of fasting and controlling our bodies, thoughts…etc…

We now have fasting cheese (including feta!), Chocolate, sausages….the list goes on….

We really do need to get back to basics I think…

]]> By: ROMANI SERGYOS http://www.frantonios.org.au/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/comment-page-1/#comment-309 ROMANI SERGYOS Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:23:20 +0000 http://www.stbishoy.org.au/modules/wordpress/2009/03/09/lent-and-lentils/#comment-309 Oh Father Antonios and allllllll , you tackled an interesting topic brought me a lot of old good memories , Lentils reminded me of my grandparents and parents and all those old good days during fasting and all those real feelings of the pain of the poor and needy around us and the great blessings of sharing and giving and more closer to our Lord ...those old good days through fasting and real making the spirit in control over the body is no more there in our today's way of life of food fasting .... oh MY God , every thing is evolving , nothing is static and everything is dynamic .....i believe with time the Coptic Community every where had a big revolution in their way of food fasting , life is not is the life anymore .... now a days i believe food fasting is the most comfortable time of the year for the Coptes during the year as a healthy diet with a real balanced diet .... a lot of availability and variety of fasting food around them ,whatever you want you can eat and with the same nutritional value of all those essential elements and amino acids necessary for the body as eating meat and other non fasting tucker .... the other day some body gave me a piece of Chocolate, i thanked him and i told him i am diabetic and fasting , he answered me , oh mate this is a fasting chocolate!!!!??? try it .. May God have mercy on the souls of our grandparents and parents and the old good days , they realy did fasting in the hard way ???!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Father Antonios and allllllll , you tackled an interesting topic brought me a lot of old good memories , Lentils reminded me of my grandparents and parents and all those old good days during fasting and all those real feelings of the pain of the poor and needy around us and the great blessings of sharing and giving and more closer to our Lord …those old good days through fasting and real making the spirit in control over the body is no more there in our today’s way of life of food fasting …. oh MY God , every thing is evolving , nothing is static and everything is dynamic …..i believe with time the Coptic Community every where had a big revolution in their way of food fasting , life is not is the life anymore …. now a days i believe food fasting is the most comfortable time of the year for the Coptes during the year as a healthy diet with a real balanced diet …. a lot of availability and variety of fasting food around them ,whatever you want you can eat and with the same nutritional value of all those essential elements and amino acids necessary for the body as eating meat and other non fasting tucker …. the other day some body gave me a piece of Chocolate, i thanked him and i told him i am diabetic and fasting , he answered me , oh mate this is a fasting chocolate!!!!??? try it .. May God have mercy on the souls of our grandparents and parents and the old good days , they realy did fasting in the hard way ???!!!!!!!!!!!

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