Reading Digests

The Lives of Saints

• St. Antony the Great

  • A Timeline of Significant Events

  • Sayings of Abba Antony

• St. Athanasius the Apostolic

  • Excerpts from Michael E. Molloy, Champion of Truth: The Life of Saint Athanasius

• St. Cyril of Alexandria

  • Excerpts from John A. McGuckin, Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy

• St. Archdeacon Habib Girgis

  • A Timeline of Significant Events

• St. Bishop Abraam of Fayoum and Giza

  • Excerpts from S.H. Leeder, Modern Sons of the Pharaohs

• St. Fr. Mikhail Ibrahim

  • Excerpts from Pope Shenouda III, A Model of Service: The Life and Work of Hegumen Mikhail Ibrahim

• St. Fr. Bishoy Kamel

  • Excerpts from John H. Watson, The Transfigured Cross: A Study of Father Bishoi Kamel (Society of Coptic Church Studies, Coptic Church Review, Vol. 23, No. 1&2)

Feasts and Celebrations of the Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Year

• The Feasts of the Cross

  • Excerpts from F.E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Ante-Nicene Church

  • Excerpts from Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History

• The Appearance of the Virgin Mary in Zeitun, Egypt

  • Excerpts from Pearl Zaki, Our Lord's Mother Visits Egypt in 1968 & 1969

• The Resurrection

  • Excerpts from Doss Press, Festal Works of the Fathers

• The Return of the Relics of St. Mark to Egypt

  • Higher Committee for Sunday School, Sunday School Magazine: July-August 1968, 1-3

Biblical & Patristic Commentaries

• Excerpts from Pope Shenouda III, Contemplations on the Book of Jonah the Prophet

• St. Macarius the Great (of Egypt), Homily 13: What Fruit God Expects from Christians

• St. Pachomius of the Koinonia, Instruction on the Six Days of Pascha