St. Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church, SUS Diocese

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"المسيح قام! حقاً قام!"
- متى 28:6

"Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!"
- Matthew 28:6

Holy Great Friday of Holy Pascha Week

Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the cross. He who is King of the angels is arrayed in a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heavens in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery...We venerate your passion, O Christ. Show us also your glorious Resurrection. - St. Cyril of Alexandria

“Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom” (Luke 23:42)

"ثُمَّ قَالَ لِيَسُوعَ: «اذْكُرْنِي يَا رَبُّ مَتَى جِئْتَ فِي مَلَكُوتِكَ»." (لو 23: 42).

Thine is the power, the glory, the blessing, and the majesty, forever. Amen.

لك القوة والمجد والبركة والعزة إلى الأبد. آمين.

❤️❤️❤️🌸🌸 HELLO LADIES

Join us as we kick start our first LADIES PRAYER MEETING 💗💗💗 for all the ladies and their daughters 🤗🤗🤗

It's going to be special praying and fun time...

We are going to gather in the church Friday March 1st . From 6 Pm to 7.30

We will pray one hour of Agpya with Abona then we will have
a TEA PARTY 🎉🎉🎉 ☕☕☕
tea/ coffee/ hot coco and simple dessert ( fasting dessert) ...

🔥🔥🔥DRESS CODE , dress elegant, a dress / skirt BELOW THE KNEES, HEELS , a hat and gloves if you want to be fancy 🌸🌸🌸

PLEASE BE ENCOURAGED TO COME IT WILL BE FUN ! 🌺🌺

Feast of the Wedding of Cana of Galilee
January 22 | Tobe 13

"Although Jesus made water into wine at the marriage, He did not give permission to get drunk…The Scripture has named wine as the symbol for sacred blood." - Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E)

Wishing everyone a blessed feast of the Wedding of Cana of Galilee 🙏♥️

“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” Matthew 3:17

Let us embrace the divine moment of Theophany, join the liturgy tonight at 8:00 PM.

May His blessings fill our hearts and souls. 🌟🌊🙏

Embrace the blessings of January with a calendar filled with joyous feasts, sacred church hours, and uplifting events. Let us come together in reverence and unity as we navigate the divine path ahead. 🙏📅

Blessed Coptic New Year 1740 AM
"You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance."
- Psalm 65:11

The blessing of St. Augustine, Patron Saint of the Repentants, and his mother be with us all. Amen 🙏

Assumption of the Body of Holy Virgin Theotokos Saint Mary
On this day, was the assumption of the body of our pure Lady St. Mary, the Mother of God. While she was keeping vigil, praying in the Holy Sepulcher, and waiting for the happy minute of her liberation from the bonds of the flesh, the Holy Spirit informed her of her forthcoming departure from this vain world. When the time drew near, the disciples and the virgins of the Mt. of Olives (Zeiton) came and the Lady was lying on her bed. Our Lord, surrounded by thousands and thousands of angels, came to Her. He consoled her, and announced her with the everlasting joy which was prepared for Her. She was happy, and she stretched out her hands, blessed the Disciples, and the Virgins. Then, she delivered up her pure soul in the hand of her Son and God, Jesus Christ, Who ascended her to the higher habitations. As of the pure body, they shrouded it and carried it to Gethsemane. On their way, some of the Jews blocked the way in the face of the disciples to prevent the burial. One of them seized the coffin. His hands were separated from his body, and remained hanging until he believed and repented for his mischievous deed. With the prayers of the holy disciples, his hands were
reattached to his body as they had been before. St. Thomas was absent at the time of St. Mary's departure, but he came after the burial. On his way back to Jerusalem, St. Thomas saw angels carrying St. Mary's pure body and ascending with it to heaven, and one of the angels said to him, 'Hurry and kiss the pure body of St. Mary.' When he arrived to the disciples, they informed him about St. Mary's departure. He told them, 'I will not believe, unless I see her body, as you all know how I did doubt the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ before.' They took him to the tomb, to uncover the body but they did not find it, and they were perplexed and amazed. St. Thomas told them how he saw the pure body ascending to heaven, carried by angels. The Holy Spirit then told them, 'The Lord did not Will to leave Her Holy body on earth.' The Lord had promised his pure apostles that they would see her in flesh another time. They were waiting for the fulfillment of this truthful promise, until the sixteenth day of the month of Misra, when the promise of seeing her was fulfilled. They saw her sitting on the right hand of her Son and her Lord, surrounded by the angelic Host, as David prophesied and said, 'At your right hand stands the queen.' (Psalm 45:9) St. Mary's life on earth was sixty years. She spent twelve years of them in the temple, thirty years in the house of the righteous St. Joseph, and fourteen years in the care of St. John the Evangelist, as the Lord commanded her saying, 'Woman behold your Son,' and to St. John, 'Behold your Mother.'
May Her intercession be with us. Amen.

Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen!
We wish everyone a happy and blessed Feast of the Holy and Glorious Resurrection of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

We wish everyone a blessed Holy Great Fast:
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.
– St. Augustine
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Saint Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church Augusta St. Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church is a parish serving the Greater Augusta, GA area and is a member of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States under the auspices of H.G. Bishop Youssef.

Glorious Theophany Feast of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
On this day of the year 31 A.D., our Master, Lord and God, Jesus Christ, was baptized at the hands of St. John the Baptist (the dyer). The feast is called in Greek the Feast of Theophany or the Feast of the Revelation of the Divine Nature of the Lord, for the Holy Trinity was revealed: our heavenly Father was heard from heaven saying, 'This is My beloved Son,' and the Son standing in the Jordan river, and the Holy Spirit was descending in the form of a dove, and alighting upon Him. St. John the Baptist bore witness that the Lord Christ, when He had been baptized, came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven saying,
'This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.'

St. John the evangelist said about this day, 'The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Behold! The Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. This is He of Whom I said, 'After me comes a Man Who is preferred before me, for He was before me.' I did not know him but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water.'' (John 1:29-31) The glory of our Lord Jesus Christ was revealed on this day, that He is the Son of God and that He is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. For this reason, this feast has become a great feast for all believers, in which they are purified with water after the example of the baptism of our Lord, to Whom is the glory, to obtain forgiveness of their sins.
Glory, honor, and worship to our Lord God, now and forever more and to the end of ages. Amen.

Blessed & Joyful Nativity Feast!

Nativity Feast Message from His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef http://www.suscopts.org/pdf/hgby/2023nativitymessage_en.pdfhttp://www.suscopts.org/pdf/hgby/2023nativitymessage_ar.pdf

January 7, 2023
Papal Message - Feast of the Nativity
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II
Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54YeplSU60&t=16s

Papal Message, Christmas 2023, English

Blessed Holy Nativity Advent Fast
November 25, 2022 - January 6, 2023

On November 20, 2022, our beloved father, His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef, was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan by the hands of His Holiness Pope Tawadros II. We congratulate him and pray for his blessings as our spiritual father and shepherd of our diocese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvNy6kSG5A

HE Metropolitan Youssef: Elevation of Metropolitans @ St Mark Cathedral, Abbasiya, Egypt~11/20/2022 His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef:His Holiness Pope Tawardos II ~ Elevation of Coptic Orthodox Metropolitans:His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef, Diocese of th...

We wish everyone a very joyous and blessed St. Mary's Feast!
Today, the Church celebrates the Assumption of the Body of the Blessed Virgin Theotokos Saint Mary.
"On this day, was the assumption of the body of our pure Lady St. Mary, the Mother of God. While she was keeping vigil, praying in the Holy Sepulcher, and waiting for the happy minute of her liberation from the bonds of the flesh, the Holy Spirit informed her of her forthcoming departure from this vain world. When the time drew near, the disciples and the virgins of the Mt. of Olives (Zeiton) came and the Lady was lying on her bed. Our Lord, surrounded by thousands and thousands of angels, came to Her. He consoled her, and announced her with the everlasting joy which was prepared for Her. She was happy, and she stretched out her hands, blessed the Disciples, and the Virgins. Then, she delivered up her pure soul in the hand of her Son and God, Jesus Christ, Who ascended her to the higher habitations. As of the pure body, they shrouded it and carried it to Gethsemane. On their way, some of the Jews blocked the way in the face of the disciples to prevent the burial. One of them seized the coffin. His hands were separated from his body, and remained hanging until he believed and repented for his mischievous deed. With the prayers of the holy disciples, his hands were
reattached to his body as they had been before. St. Thomas was absent at the time of St. Mary's departure, but he came after the burial. On his way back to Jerusalem, St. Thomas saw angels carrying St. Mary's pure body and ascending with it to heaven, and one of the angels said to him, 'Hurry and kiss the pure body of St. Mary.' When he arrived to the disciples, they informed him about St. Mary's departure. He told them, 'I will not believe, unless I see her body, as you all know how I did doubt the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ before.' They took him to the tomb, to uncover the body but they did not find it, and they were perplexed and amazed. St. Thomas told them how he saw the pure body ascending to heaven, carried by angels. The Holy Spirit then told them, 'The Lord did not Will to leave Her Holy body on earth.' The Lord had promised his pure apostles that they would see her in flesh another time. They were waiting for the fulfillment of this truthful promise, until the sixteenth day of the month of Misra, when the promise of seeing her was fulfilled. They saw her sitting on the right hand of her Son and her Lord, surrounded by the angelic Host, as David prophesied and said, 'At your right hand stands the queen.' (Psalm 45:9) St. Mary's life on earth was sixty years. She spent twelve years of them in the temple, thirty years in the house of the righteous St. Joseph, and fourteen years in the care of St. John the Evangelist, as the Lord commanded her saying, 'Woman behold your Son,' and to St. John, 'Behold your Mother.'"
May Her intercession and blessings be with us. Amen. (Synaxarion)

August 7 - 21 Saint Mary's Fast
August 22 The Feast of the Assumption of the Body of Saint Mary
Come join us starting this Saturday and throughout St. Mary's Fast for praises and reflections on her pure and virtuous life and it's relevance as a Christian in society today.

St. Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church, SUS Diocese updated their business hours.

Saint Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church Augusta St. Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church is a parish serving the Greater Augusta, GA area and is a member of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States under the auspices of H.G. Bishop Youssef.

God willing, this week, we will begin studying the Book of 2 Samuel.

Saint Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church Augusta St. Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church is a parish serving the Greater Augusta, GA area and is a member of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States under the auspices of H.G. Bishop Youssef.

Jonah's Passover: "Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it" (Jonah 3:10).

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