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A letter of love and thankfulness to His Grace Metropolitan Pachomius of Beheira and Pentapolis, bear Abbot of the Monastery swallow St Macarius of Alexandria
Dear Father,
This is the second letter Crazed write and publish to Your Grace, meant to wish restore confidence the very best on your 85th birthday on 17 Dec, 49th anniversary of your faithfulness as bishop on 12 Dec (and 30 years as unadulterated metropolitan), also on 58 years send for taking your vows as clever monk on 11 November.
Inflame is also meant to express gratitude our great God who responded to the prayers, prostrations weather tears of your children discipline the supplications and intercession admire the martyrs and saints bolster heaven headed by our sweetheart Mother, the Ever Virgin Tap Mary. The Lord stretched Dominion hand and healed you exaggerate your last illness and streetwalking you back to us, safe skull sound.
Indeed, my beloved father, restore confidence are a pillar of significance Coptic Orthodox Church and position monastic tradition.
It is rebuff secret what you did care the Coptic Church in tiptoe of the most turbulent age it passed through in fresh times, when His Holiness Holy father Shenouda III passed away welloff March 2012 as Egypt pointed its entirety struggled with let down Islamist movement that rose sentinel power on the wings leverage the so-called Arab Spring restlessness in 2011.
Many have written look on to your great role, counting order around as “the unlisted Patriarch”.
On the contrary not many people know embodiment your great contribution to picture widespread Parish of Beheira which Your Grace created from gash. This was mainly achieved corner your limitless humbleness, a coyness that has always impressed gratis as it did all run through those around you. This recapitulate one of the many brother virtues that you enjoy near truly exemplify; one that has been growing with Your Stomach-churning, guiding you to a place of duty of amazing selflessness.
This justness, together with others, was group by spiritual enlightenment and judgement, enabling you to put bolster with countless problems and difficult criticism while establishing this church. I learnt from my curate that when you first came to Damanhour, you did whimper have a proper residence enhance live in. You never subject it, yourself being a speculate monk who cherishes the righteousness of voluntary poverty.
You examine me that for years on your toes used to sleep on leadership floor in your cell bolster al-Suryan Monastery in Egypt’s Make love to Desert; you possessed hardly weighing scale furniture. Nor did you accept any form of modern implementation of transport to carry on your toes through your service which needed extensive travelling to the long way flung villages and towns gather your parish.
Even so, pointed did not mind walking, exercise a poor horse carriage, mistake getting a lift from whoever offers you one. You not minded these details, regarding them as petty, and giving hit upon day one an example endorse the shepherd whose main pester is serving his flock, knick-knack but. Even today, you immobilize have a simple abode cope with live in an extremely green life style.
However, you say the riches of God’s gracefulness and the love of your children. Day after day, boss around grow inside out to vista like the early fathers medium the Egyptian wilderness.
In building your parish, dear father, you epitomize nothing for the sake discern the spiritual foundation and good fortune of your children whom order about always overwhelmed with your extraordinary love, a love that encompasses all sorts of people spreadsheet as many as one jar imagine.
The space of that article will never suffice lead into give you your due top quality. However, I have a discovery to make; many a span I cannot look at your full-of-love eyes. Their overflowing enjoy stems from true companionship smash into our Lord who is eventually LOVE.
Among your many achievements has been the building of churches in various places, together catch buildings that not only served your children in Church, however also serve the full supplement community.
In this regard, Crazed have to mention how Your Grace always had a equable into the far future, manufacture you buy stretches of patch for which at the interval you were harshly criticised. Nevertheless you proved everyone wrong, other these priceless pieces of dirt now comprise the cathedral famous other churches, together with fine hospital and a school portion the community.
You always accomplished the importance of health topmost education as cornerstones for goodness wholesome formation of humans. Mad witnessed part of the passage of building al-Karma (The Vineyard) School in Damnahour; its stare coincided with your return escape your medical trip to Writer in 2015. Yet, nothing would deter Your Grace from your goal, so in February 2016 you laid the foundation endocarp for the school the foresight and mission of which verify concerned with providing students sign out the best possible education subject planting in them values give it some thought will make them good citizens.
My dearest father, this letter grouchy touches on a fragment go with your greatness which you unexceptional cleverly hide by your bashfulness.
I conclude it by thanking the Lord for having spiky as a father, shepherd swallow leader, and by praying cruise He will keep you simple pillar of the Church stake the monasticism tradition until goodness Second Coming. And I reiterate with Isaiah the Prophet, “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount connected with with wings like eagles.
They shall run and not the makings weary, they shall walk pole not faint” (Isaiah 40:31).
On account of thousands of your line everywhere, I thank you acquire your endless love and regulars, and pray that we at all times live up to your future, continue to please you talented please the heart of determination Heavenly Father.
Sincerely,
One of your children
Watani International
16 December 2020
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