Genesis 22:14 -- ☩ 🇪🇬 ☦ "give a man a mask and you’ll see his true face”
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You ask, “Shouldn’t I be doing something?” Of course that is necessary. Do whatever falls to your hands, in your circle and in your situation—and believe that this is and will be your true work; nothing more from you is required. It is a great error to think that you must ...
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A reminder that nobody has done the reading, and if you do that alone you’ll soon find yourself absurdly ahead of the curve
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They say we don't teach about socialism in schools. Yes we do: group projects. Where you do ALL the work because your 3 lazy teammates do nothing, but you have integrity and don't wanna fail, but they end up getting the same grade as you for nothing. That's socialism. It sucks.
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This actually happened during the days when Pope Shenouda was under house arrest at St Anba Beshoy’s Monastery.
His Grace Bishop Anba Antony, Bishop of Scotland, recounts:
“During the time when His Holiness Pope Shenouda was staying under restriction at Anba Beshoy’s Monastery, we were working on the concrete construction, and we ran out of cement. So I spoke to the abbot of the monastery, His Grace Bishop Anba Sarapamon, and told him, ‘We’ve run out of cement.’
He said, ‘What’s the problem?’
I said, ‘What should we do with the workers?’
He told me, ‘Send them home.’
I said, ‘If they leave, we won’t be able to bring them back because there are soldiers surrounding the entire area, and it won’t be easy for them to get back in.’
He said, ‘Then let them stay until the cement arrives.’
I said, ‘But we have to pay them their daily wages. Every day counts.’
So he said, ‘Let’s ask His Holiness the Pope.’
I went to His Holiness the Pope, and he said to me, ‘How many tons do you need?’
I told him, ‘We need 25 tons of cement to finish the rest of the building so we can complete it.’
His Holiness said, ‘If we can’t get it, then what can we do? Let’s talk to Christ.’
The Pope took his staff and began pointing it toward the sky, saying, ‘Lord, we need 25 tons of cement.’
Then he asked me, ‘What type do you need?’ He was asking and laughing.
I told His Holiness, ‘We need ordinary Portland cement.’
So he said toward the sky, ‘Lord, we need 25 tons of ordinary Portland cement for Father Axios,’ who later became Bishop Antony.
Then His Holiness asked me, ‘Do you need anything else?’
I said, ‘No.’
He said, ‘Sign it.’
I understood that he meant to sign the request with his name. I said, ‘Sign it.’
So he wrote his name in the air with his staff.
And believe me, exactly less than twenty minutes later, we saw a truck loaded with cement arrive at the monastery.
The driver got out, went to His Holiness the Pope, and asked him, ‘Where should I unload this cement?’
The Pope asked him, ‘What type is it?’
He said, ‘Ordinary Portland cement.’
He asked him, ‘How many tons?’
He replied, ‘Twenty-five tons.’
Then His Grace Bishop Sarapamon came toward me and said, ‘Why didn’t you ask for 30? God had opened the heavens!’
Pope Shenouda III is a great saint. May his prayers be with us all Amen.
#CopticOrthodox
Just went to the wrong restaurant and didn’t realize it until they sat me down and I ordered. Lol.
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Unpopular take but BPC-157 should be the LAST thing the FDA is approving,
Instead all pharmacies should carry prescription grade betaine hcl + enzymes and prescribe regularly,
Medical grade herbal bitters for bile flow,
And Zinc L-Carnosine for gut lining.
80/20 of ALL of IBS,
Sure BPC has it's place but if people were simply given these basics first they wouldn't suffer such intensive gut lining damage and microbial overgrowths where they have to reach for BPC.
Can't you see it's just symptom managing that they're cashing in on, just because it's a peptide,
Right compounds. Wrong intentions.
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everything happens for a reason is not in the bible but "God promises to work all things to good for those who love him" is.
Romans 8:28
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Captain Cook loaded 7,860 pounds of sauerkraut onto the HMS Endeavour in 1768. His crew refused to eat it, so he served it exclusively to the officers and made sure they ate it visibly in front of the crew every single day until the sailors decided they wanted some too. Not one man died of scurvy on the entire three-year voyage.
Cook circumnavigated the world on his first voyage without losing a single man to scurvy and the Royal Society of London awarded him the Copley Medal on his return, one of the most prestigious scientific honours in Britain, specifically for his methods of preserving the health of his crew. The achievement was genuinely extraordinary. Scurvy had been killing sailors on long voyages for centuries, with some estimates suggesting it killed more sailors than enemy action, storms and all other causes of death combined. Cook solved it with fermented cabbage and a very specific understanding of human psychology.
A typical daily menu aboard the Endeavour consisted of breakfast with boiled wheat and sugar, a midday dinner of salted beef stew and vegetables, and an evening meal of soup with ship's biscuits so hard they had to be broken up with a marlin spike. The ship carried approximately 5,500 litres of beer, 7,300 litres of spirits, 16 tonnes of bread, 2 tonnes of salted beef and over 3 tonnes of sauerkraut.
The sailors ate approximately 5,000 calories a day to sustain the physical demands of running an 18th century sailing ship. Cook also carried portable broth made from cattle offal, forty bushels of malt, vinegar, mustard and concentrated citrus juice as additional anti-scurvy measures. He was running what was effectively the first controlled nutritional experiment in naval history across three years and 40,000 miles of ocean.
The sauerkraut psychology is the detail that stay with me in this story. Cook noticed that Dutch sailors suffered far less from scurvy than their British counterparts and observed that they carried barrels of sauerkraut. He ordered his ships to do the same but his British sailors refused the unfamiliar foreign food entirely. His solution was to serve it only to the officers while making sure they ate it visibly in front of the crew. Within weeks the sailors were demanding their share, and Cook understood that sailors suspicious of an unfamiliar food would eat it the moment they believed someone of higher status was being given something they were not.
© Eats History
#drthehistories
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Maya Johnson, a U.S. Army soldier deployed to Iraq (2019–2021), was nicknamed “Church Girl” for praying before every mission despite being mocked by teammates. She remained consistent in her faith, and during the time she joined convoy missions, her team avoided bomb attacks. When she was removed, the unit began getting hit, but after she returned, the attacks stopped again.
After a close call where she drove over a bomb that didn’t explode, she became even more bold in her faith. By the end of the deployment, all 300 soldiers in her unit returned home safely.
Her message: don’t stop praying, even when people mock you; you never know whose life it may impact.
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The 40th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary over the domes of Saint Demiana Church – Shubra[ Not the Zaytoun apparition for those who don't know)
A wondrous radiance…
On March 25, 1986, about a year after the return of Pope Shenouda III from his confinement in the monastery, this was the first apparition of the Mother of Light during the time of our holy father. After that, she appeared over church domes in Assiut in 2000, and then over the domes of the church in Warraq in 2009.
The apparitions at Saint Demiana Church in Ard Baba Dablo, Shubra, were extraordinary. They varied from the full visible appearance of the Mother of Light,which at one time lasted about twenty minutes,to other spiritual phenomena witnessed by tens of thousands at different times. The small church became a destination for Egyptians from all walks of life, and the apparitions were accompanied by healing miracles.
I myself was an eyewitness to all these true apparitions, along with tens of thousands of other witnesses. Glory be to the name of our Lord to our Coptic Orthodox Church, the Church of the martyrs.
#OrientalOrthodox
