{"id":36842,"date":"2016-05-08T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=36842"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:38:44","slug":"%d9%82%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b9%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%af-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%82%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b9%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%af-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af\/","title":{"rendered":"HH Pope Tawadros II sermon on the eve of the martyrdom of St. Mark the Apostle Feast: St. Mark had a clear vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">On Saturday, May 7, 2016, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II Pope of Alexandria, and Patriarch of the see of Saint Mark, headed\u00a0the eve of the martyrdom of St. Mark\u00a0the\u00a0Apostle &#8220;the\u00a0evangelist\u00a0of Egypt&#8221; feast\u00a0at St. Mark Cathedral in Alexandria, his Holiness perfumed the tube that\u00a0contains part of the saint body, with the\u00a0participation\u00a0of HG\u00a0Bishop Bavle,\u00a0General bishop of Montazah sector churches in Alexandria and in charge of the youth service, Rev. Abram Emile pastor of St. Mark Church and secretary of Alexandria\u00a0priests\u00a0Council, the Rev. Angelios Isaac\u00a0and\u00a0pastor Ammonius Adel\u00a0secretaries of His Holiness and a large number of Priestess of Alexandria. His Holiness Pope Tawadros read chapter XVI of the Gospel of St. Mark the Apostle\u00a0No. 9<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">HH Pope Tawadros II delivered a sermon at the eve of the martyrdom of St. Mark the Apostle\u00a0about his\u00a0upbringing and his preaching and how he was a\u00a0person who has a purpose and a clear vision represented by the Lord Jesus Christ, who had\u00a0a\u00a0clear\u00a0evident and\u00a0target which was the cross and salvation, and His Holiness pointed to four important scenes in the life of St. Mark including:<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He had\u00a0a\u00a0goal in dedicating his live<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He had a goal\u00a0in his service<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He had a goal\u00a0in his gospel<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He had a goal in his\u00a0thought<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">His Holiness concluded his sermon by saying that St. Mark the Evangelist received the crown of martyrdom and apostolic preaching and became one of those who wrote the\u00a0New Testament.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 7, 2016, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II Pope of Alexandria, and Patriarch of the see of Saint Mark, headed\u00a0the eve of the martyrdom of St. Mark\u00a0the\u00a0Apostle &#8220;the\u00a0evangelist\u00a0of Egypt&#8221; feast\u00a0at St. Mark Cathedral in Alexandria, his Holiness perfumed the tube that\u00a0contains part of the saint body, with the\u00a0participation\u00a0of HG\u00a0Bishop Bavle,\u00a0General bishop of Montazah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,40,74],"tags":[5068,5066,4842,4089,5067,3754,1637,1634,1860,573,5065],"class_list":["post-36842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-74","tag-clear-vision","tag-eve","tag-feast","tag-hh-pope-tawadros-ii","tag-martyrdom-of-st-mark-the-apostle","tag-sermon","tag-1637","tag-1634","tag-1860","tag-573","tag-5065"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36865,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions\/36865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}