Bible in a Year with Fr Paul

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Bible in a Year with Fr Paul

Hey there, this is Fr Paul and I’m glad we’re taking this journey together to read the bible in a year. This podcast is made for the youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary and St Athanasius, Mississauga ON Canada If that's you, you are in the right place. If that's not you, you are also in the right place. Either way, I am glad you're here and that by the grace of God, we'll be taking this journey together. New episodes drop daily at 6AM est.

  1. Day 22 - Manna from Heaven and Water from a Rock

    -2 H

    Day 22 - Manna from Heaven and Water from a Rock

    If anyone cannot endure what I have said but still clings to the poverty of worldly things, snatching at the things which undergo diminution, let him call to mind the food of manna. Let him tremble at the example of that punishment. For what happened in that instance, this same result one may now also see in the case of covetous people. But what then happened to them? Worms were bred from their covetousness. This also now happens in their case. For the measure of the food is the same for all. You have but one stomach to fill. Only you who feed luxuriously have more to get rid of. Those who gathered in their houses more than the lawful quantity gathered not manna but more worms and rottenness. Just so both in luxury and in covetousness, the gluttonous and drunken gather not more delicacies but more corruption―St John Chrysostom

    13 min
  2. Day 21 - Crossing the Red Sea

    -1 J

    Day 21 - Crossing the Red Sea

    It is said in the ode, "For he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he cast into the sea." The many-limbed and brutal affection, lust, with the rider mounted, who gives reigns to pleasures, "he has cast into the sea," throwing them away into the disorders of the world―St Clement of Alexandria

    13 min
  3. Day 20 - The Exodus

    -2 J

    Day 20 - The Exodus

    The sacrifice of this lamb was so great that even the shadow of its truth was sufficient for salvation in freeing the Jews from the slavery of Pharaoh, as though already the liberation of the creature from the slavery of corruption was prefigured, the image of Christ‘s coming passion worked for the advent of salvation―Martin of Braga

    14 min
  4. Day 19 - Pharaoh hardens his heart

    -3 J

    Day 19 - Pharaoh hardens his heart

    God constantly says, "I will harden Pharaoh‘s heart," and gives the reason why he does this. He says, "I will harden Pharaoh‘s heart and fulfill my signs and my portents in Egypt," as if the hardening of Pharaoh‘s heart were necessary so that God‘s signs might be multiplied and fulfilled in Egypt. God makes good use of bad hearts for what he wishes to show to those who are good or those he is going to make good. And the quality of evil in each heart (that is, what sort of heart is disposed to evil) came about through its own evildoing, which grew from the choice of the will. Still, those evils in quality, so that the heart is moved this way or that, when it is moved to evil this way or that way, comes to be by causes by which the soul is driven. And whether these causes either exist or do not exist is not within the power of man. They come from the providence of God that is hidden, most just and clearly most wise, who disposes and administers the universe that he created. So that Pharaoh had such a heart, which was not moved by God‘s patience to piety but rather to impiety, was the result of his own vice. But that those things happened by which his heart, so evil by its own vice, resisted God‘s command— it is called "hardened" because it did not bend and agree but resisted unbendingly— was of divine dispensation. It was not unjust to such a heart. It was clearly a just punishment [that] was being prepared, by which those who feared God would be corrected. For example: when money is offered for the commission of homicide, a greedy man is moved in one way, but one who disdains money is moved in another way. The former is moved to commit the crime, the latter to being cautious. Yet the offer of the money itself was not under the control of either of them. Thus motives come to evil men that indeed are not under their control, but they act from these motives as they find them already established from their own past willing. We should consider whether the phrase can be understood in this way: "I shall harden," as if he were saying, "I shall show how hard his heart is."―St Augustine

    14 min
  5. Day 18 - Moses and The Burning Bush

    -4 J

    Day 18 - Moses and The Burning Bush

    When the almighty Lord of the universe began to legislate through the Word and decided to make his power visible to Moses, he sent Moses a divine vision with the appearance of light, in the burning bush. Now a bramble bush is full of thorns. So too when the Word was concluding his legislation and his stay among men as their Lord, again he permitted himself to be crowned with thorns as a mystic symbol. Returning to the place from which he had descended, the Word renewed that by which he had first come, appearing first in the bush of thorns and later being surrounded with thorns that he might show that all was the work of the same one power. He is one, and his Father is one, the eternal beginning and end—St Clement of Alexandria

    17 min
  6. Day 17 - The Deliverer is Born

    -5 J

    Day 17 - The Deliverer is Born

    He who hated the pomp of royalty returned to the lowly state of his own race. He preferred to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to have the fleeting enjoyment of sin. He who, possessing naturally a love for justice, on one occasion even before the government of the people was entrusted to him was seen inflicting on the wicked punishment to the extent of death because of his natural hatred of villainy. He was banished by those to whom he had been a benefactor. He gladly left the uproar of the Egyptians and went to Ethiopia and, spending there all his time apart from others, devoted himself for forty entire years to the contemplation of creation—St Basil the Great

    7 min
  7. Day 16 - Jacob enters Egypt

    -6 J

    Day 16 - Jacob enters Egypt

    See how he also taught his sons from the very beginning to show due respect for the old man. Joseph brought them along according to seniority, the text says, and presented Manasseh and then Ephraim. At this point notice, I ask you, how the good man‘s bodily eyes were by this time weak through old age ("His eyes had faded with age," remember, "and he could not see"), but the eyes of his mind were strengthened, and by faith Jacob already saw what was going to happen. I mean, instead of heeding Joseph, Jacob crossed his hands over in blessing them and gave precedence to the younger, putting Ephraim ahead of Manasseh―St John Chrysostom

    17 min
  8. Day 15 - Family Reunion

    15 JANV.

    Day 15 - Family Reunion

    Our God himself also exhorts that people with his own prophecy and promises them advancement in the faith, the fruit of his gift, for he says to them, "Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes." It was not that the holy patriarch was troubled as to who should close his eyes, although in the clear understanding of it a natural love is also being expressed. For we often desire to embrace those whom we love. How much more, when we are about to depart from this body, do we take delight in the last touch of our beloved children and find consolation in such a provision for our journey. Yet in a mystical sense we may take it to mean that afterward the Jewish people are going to know their God. For this is a mystery, that the true Joseph places his hands over the eyes of another, so that he who before did not see may now see. Come to the Gospel, read how the blind man was healed, when Jesus put his hand on him and took away his blindness. Indeed, Christ does not put his hand on those who are going to die but on those who are going to live or, if on those who are going to die, rightly so, because we first die in order that we may live again. For we cannot see God unless we die to sin previously―St Ambrose of Milan

    22 min
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Hey there, this is Fr Paul and I’m glad we’re taking this journey together to read the bible in a year. This podcast is made for the youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary and St Athanasius, Mississauga ON Canada If that's you, you are in the right place. If that's not you, you are also in the right place. Either way, I am glad you're here and that by the grace of God, we'll be taking this journey together. New episodes drop daily at 6AM est.

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    Fr Paul Guirgis
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