The feast of Christ entered the land of Egypt .. Pope Tawadros explains his stations and contemplates its aspects

The Christians of Egypt celebrate today, Sunday, June 24, according to the Coptic calendar, shortly after the entry of Christ, the land of Egypt, where the churches and the headquarters of the bishops held the masses specifically on this occasion in a festive atmosphere.

The feast of the entry of Christ is the land of Egypt

The Copts remember on this day, corresponding to June 1 of each year, the coming of Christ to the land of Egypt during the Journey of the Holy Family.

His Eminence, St. Raphael, a general bishop of churches in central Cairo, affirmed his happiness with the celebration of Christ’s entry into Egypt.

St. Raphael said that the Zouila Church was the seat of the patriarchs in an important period in the history of the church.

One of the Sayyidiya holidays is fixed

His Holiness, Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the See of St. Alexandria is one of the first messenger chairs in establishing Christianity across the whole world. After Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Roma, then Constantinople came, and in Egyptian Christian history we celebrate this holiday and has many aspects and we are talking about 4 aspects.

1- The historical side:

This historical event occurred between two important points in history; The first point was about 700 years before the event, and it is the prophecy of the Prophet’s Isaiah in Aseah 19, when he said: “A blessing of my people is Egypt” (Isaiah 19:25), but he said in that prophecy, “On that day, it will be a sacrifice for the Lord. And a baptism of the Lord when you are closing it. ” (Is 19:19). This altar, which was established in the middle of the land of Egypt, and the Monastery of the Virgin, famous for the “Muharraq” in Assiut, and a pillar when it is free, is St. Mar Mark the Apostle; Because we say about the Apostles fathers that they are the pillars of the church, and this column that came from the western borders of Egypt where his hometown in Libya came to Egypt and preached it to the Christian faith, this event (entering the Holy Family) is located in history between two points, a previous point of 700 years, which is the prophecy of Isaiah the Prophet, and a later point after the visit of the Holy Family by about 50 years, which is the presidency And the visit and the preaching) our Coptic Church was established, and this is a privilege that the Church is unique in all the history of the Christian churches worldwide, so there is no church established by these three; The prophecy in the Old Testament, and the visit of the Holy Family at the beginning of the New Testament, then the prescription of St. Mar Mark in the middle of the first century AD and was martyred in the year 68 AD, and this is the historical aspect, and this is a pride and pride of our church, our land and our history, and we live in the history of the church through the snake and we read the fixed event in history 24 Bashnes.

2- The geographical aspect:

This trip was not in one place; When the Holy Family entered from the eastern border towards the Al -Farramah and then entering the Delta area next to the Damietta branch and then Rashid branch in the center of the Delta to the Wadi al -Natrun area to the old Cairo region, and an extension from Maadi to Upper Egypt in many countries through the sea or land road, and it settled in Deir al -Muharraq in Jabal Qassam for about 6 months, this is the geographical aspect as if Jesus was meant, In her country from Sinai to the Lower Egypt to Cairo and then to Upper Egypt, as if he wanted to bless this country, roads, dirt, river, planting and air, as if he wanted to include Egypt with a special blessing and this blessing through the path of the Holy Family, and we celebrate this holiday since the first century AD, and the parents arranged from the first centuries and in the last time Egypt began with all its devices that cared about the path and pay attention to its importance A homeland and civilization, and history in all these archaeological places. When Saint Helena visited these areas and built churches and holy places at the journey stations, and today in the 21st century we present this path and the state with all its devices and the leadership of the President and all the ministers to show this work and this date for all the world; In order to come and bless it and Egypt itself to the world through this sacred path, and this is the geographical aspect.

3- The spiritual aspect:

The spiritual aspect is especially concerned with us; Because the historical and geographical aspect of public matters occurred in history, and we know that God is a master and a controller of history, so all things take place through the arrangement of God and he is the officer of all, the spiritual aspect that we must benefit from ourselves, this event is an escape from the face of evil, an escape from the violent Herod who decided in anger to kill all children from two years old to without, so that the expected king dies in the king of Israel who is Jesus Christ We have this event and its record, and the Church kept it to learn a person as a principle of spiritual principles, which is escape, “the sacrifice of your life” and this is one of the commandments, what we escape? 1- Running from evil and the people of evil: There are people who allowed themselves to be evil and lived in evil and pray in the prayer of thanksgiving “every envy, and every experience, and all the act of Satan, The hidden and apparent enemies removed it from us. The evil is in the world, running away from evil, and escaping here is strength, wisdom and an important choice for man, running away from evil in all his apparent and non -apparent forms, and escape from the people who tend to evil, do not stand in front of evil, run away, and this is what Jesus and the Saint Joseph Al -Najjar, who we call “the guard of the sacrament”, took the Holy Family according to the will of the angel. The boy and his mother are raised to Egypt “(Matthew 2:13). For Egypt to become a symbol of safety, peace and incubation. The most dangerous types of sins, so from the church arrangements that it made the secret of repentance and recognition to control the spiritual compass of a person, sin makes a person away from his spiritual path and then put it out, and sin is all its dead people are strong, we always occupy the great sins but the most difficult are the small sins, because the small sins link the person to greater sins. They denounced her strength. ” (2T3: 5). Therefore, I escape from evil as Jesus did and run away from sin in all its forms, and from the monastery teachings “it is not better for a person than to return to the blame of himself in everything” The beginning of repentance is that a person blames himself and lives a new life because repentance is changing the path, running away from evil and sin.

4- Ensure anger:

“If the anger set up a dead person, then it is not acceptable before God.” Herod’s anger made him kill all children, anger blinded him to the results of this evil, run away from anger, anger is a human act that can be signed by man in unlevantary things, convinced yourself that anger does not make a solution and does not provide an answer and when Christ spoke the treasure of virtues, he said: “Learn from me And the humiliation of the heart. ” (Matt 11: 29). Let a person be slow in anger … Pay attention to your life, teach yourself to get out of anger and emotion.

Pope Tawadros continued: The summary, my brothers, and we celebrate the joy of this holiday while we are in the holy fifty days. We mention it spiritually in our daily life.

The Pope continued: God specializes in us and gave us this blessing that this event will take place on the land of our country, live it and rejoice in it, and today we are present in one of his important stations, this makes a person think about the amount of great grace that God gives us.