http://www.frantonios.org.au/2009/07/22/hold-on-tight/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:49:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.frantonios.org.au/2009/07/22/hold-on-tight/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Romani sergyos Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:55:46 +0000 http://www.stbishoy.org.au/modules/wordpress/2009/07/22/hold-on-tight/#comment-337 It is true as Christians that we rely all the time in "God,s Will " specially in those sad aspects which are beyond our own comprehension and control as humans ..... we learned in our ritual belief that" God give and God take " and we praise the name of the lord all the time and we keep rolling in our materialistic life all the time as we learned to accept and adjust to any loss by the time .......we learned that life continues and will not stop by the death or the loss of any thing in our earthly life ....we learned that our life on earth is short and temporary as compared to our longer great eternal life next to our lord Jesus Christ so we feel , accept , comforted and adjust to any loss in our materialistic life as we consider it as a profit and credit for our eternal life .....everything in black and white ...no Grey areas are there ...everybody accept the fact of the unknown and try to adjust to it ....even some people they go further in their acceptance of the fact of death by preparing their funerals and site of burial ...they know where their dusted body where it will be ended ...so the bottom line the departed person accept and adjust to the fact of death feeling that our lord Jesus Christ will fulfill all his promises ....i believe our church is doing a great job in this area of concern , of grief in this part of the world as in every funeral one priest enter and do a sermon and as he finished another priest enter and do another sermon , really they comfort and support the relatives of the deceased and pass the message of eternity to all the the funeral church congregation on site .....as for marriage we might refer to it another time but really our church needs to address and do a lot in prevention and early intervention , as well the right way of solving crisis and through the right people ???!! i wonder if the Coptic communities in other parts of the world have got similar marriage crisis as we do here .... the more crisis now is that our boys and girls prefer to marry from other cultures and avoid the Coptic Culture and its problems , it is really sad ???!!!may the holy spirit work on all of us to do the right thing ,amen .... It is true as Christians that we rely all the time in “God,s Will ” specially in those sad aspects which are beyond our own comprehension and control as humans ….. we learned in our ritual belief that” God give and God take ” and we praise the name of the lord all the time and we keep rolling in our materialistic life all the time as we learned to accept and adjust to any loss by the time …….we learned that life continues and will not stop by the death or the loss of any thing in our earthly life ….we learned that our life on earth is short and temporary as compared to our longer great eternal life next to our lord Jesus Christ so we feel , accept , comforted and adjust to any loss in our materialistic life as we consider it as a profit and credit for our eternal life …..everything in black and white …no Grey areas are there …everybody accept the fact of the unknown and try to adjust to it ….even some people they go further in their acceptance of the fact of death by preparing their funerals and site of burial …they know where their dusted body where it will be ended …so the bottom line the departed person accept and adjust to the fact of death feeling that our lord Jesus Christ will fulfill all his promises ….i believe our church is doing a great job in this area of concern , of grief in this part of the world as in every funeral one priest enter and do a sermon and as he finished another priest enter and do another sermon , really they comfort and support the relatives of the deceased and pass the message of eternity to all the the funeral church congregation on site …..as for marriage we might refer to it another time but really our church needs to address and do a lot in prevention and early intervention , as well the right way of solving crisis and through the right people ???!! i wonder if the Coptic communities in other parts of the world have got similar marriage crisis as we do here …. the more crisis now is that our boys and girls prefer to marry from other cultures and avoid the Coptic Culture and its problems , it is really sad ???!!!may the holy spirit work on all of us to do the right thing ,amen ….

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