Today, H.H Pope Tawadros II delivered his weekly sermon in Wednesday’s meeting from St. Mary & St. Bishoy’s Church in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Abbasia; in the presents of a number of church’s pontiffs, the sermon was also broadcast on Christian satellite channels and C.O.C channel of the Church’s media center on the Internet.
H.H. continued his consideration about Sunday’s fasting as he dedicated a serious for it called “Where are you?” and discussed the verses of the Gospel of the Third Sunday of fast by St. Luke, (Lu 15:11-32) and pointed out where we meet Christ at home through the example of the Prodigal Son; And the comparison between the characteristics of the house in which God is present and the house in which God is not:
characteristics of the house in which God is present:
1- God built it with his own hands and is there with prayers.
2- God takes care of it as he is the controller of everything.
3- Satisfaction at holy times.
4- God brings blessings in it.
characteristics of the house in which God is not in it (the total opposite):
1- Cold as a prison.
2- Lakes love and the interest of it is from the outside more than the inside.
3- Complaining about not being satisfied.
4- Relations inside of it lakes amiability.
H.H. also spoke about “How we meet with our Lord inside our house” throughout:
1- The weak member in the family.
2- The same time of his weakness.
3- Implementation of the commandment “A soft answer repels anger.”
4- The caring eye that has mercy.
H.H. began, from the very first week of fasting, a new series of considerations that will continue throughout the period of fasting by asking God to Adam, “Where are you?”, as H.H. indicated that God is always searching for us, and fasting presents us with 7 places where we meet with God through the Fasting Sundays; and this is the third one from the serious.

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