The intellectual
knowledge, as the saying goes that we know God
by the mind.
Such knowledge is not complete, for even if the
mind is sound and thinks soundly, it will lead
to the beginning of knowledge not to deep
knowledge. No doubt the mind has a role, but not
everything. Moreover the mind sometimes cannot
express the knowledge it has acquired about God.
The language is limited with respect to the
divine matters, how much rather about God the
Incomprehensible! The intellectual knowledge
also is theoretic, lacking the practical and
experimental aspects, and lacking the Spirit and
the emotions. So, let us speak about the deepest
and most perfect knowledge, which is: The knowledge acquired through communion and
experience, of which the Psalmist said, "Taste
and see that the Lord is good." (Ps 34: 8).
There is a big difference between speaking about
the good taste of food and the feeling of how
delicious it is. This applies to knowledge. This
reminds us of the words of Job the Righteous
after experiencing life with God, he said:
"I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, but
now my eye seas You." (Job 42: 5).
A big difference indeed between hearing and
seeing, information coming from outside and
experience felt within! We want you to move from
the level of hearing to the level of seeing. You
cannot know God while you are away from Him. You
should have communion with God to know Him.
Move from theoretical....
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United
States Press Release
The association
Voice of the Copts would like to inform you
that on July 23, 2008 at 12:00 noon next to
United Nation building in New York City,
intend to have a peaceful protest against
the last criminal acts occurred in Egypt
against Copts (Christians of Egypt) and
other religious minorities. After gathering
and protesting we plan to move towards the
Egyptian council to bring our protest to....
St Marina’s gets
its land
By Nader Shukry, Watani News
The 5000-square-metre plot of land that had
been the subject of a dispute between
Matrouh governorate on one hand and St
Marina’s church and the New Urban
Communities Authority (NUCA) on the other
has finally been resolved in favor of the
church. Matrouh governor Saad Khalil
announced the allocation of the land to the
church, while welcoming visitors from
Parliament’s Defense and National Security
Committee in Marsa Matrouh. A commission
delegated and supervised by the governor is
currently working to define the borders of
the plot of land in order to finalize the
documents required to officially hand it
over to the Church. Road on usurped land,
The church of the Holy Virgin and St Marina,
called St Marina’s for short, was built in
2002 on an idyllic spot overlooking the
Mediterranean on Egypt’s North Coast, 107km
west of Alexandria. In September last year
the town council of Alamein, throwing to the
wind all legal procedures, paved a road on
land owned by the church. The Church had....
Sobhi Girguis, winner of the State
Prize for Appreciation in Art
By Wagdy Habashy, Watani News
In appreciation of his
lifetime contribution to art, the 79-year-old
Egyptian sculptor Sobhi Girguis has been awarded
the State Prize for Appreciation in Art for
2007. Girguis’ remarkable and prolific output is
‘authentically’ Egyptian, strongly relating to
the features of Egyptian daily life and
heritage. The prize perhaps crowns the many
previous prizes Girguis earned, the most
important of which was the first prize at the
Alexandria Biennale 1994 and the 5th
International Cairo Biennale in 1995. Local and
international Girguis was born in 1929 in one of
Cairo’s more populous districts, Qullali, where
he was clearly influenced by folklore. He
studied art at Cairo University, graduating in
1958. A scholarship took him to Italy, where he
continued to study art in the period from 1965
to 1970, when his artistic character was shaped.
From the time of his graduation up to the
present, Girguis has held 20 solo shows and has
taken part in many local and international art
events. He represented Egypt at the
International Biennale in Venice in 1976, in
Spain and in India, as well as at the 1st
Biennale of Cairo in 1984 and the Biennale of
National Arts “Road of the Sun” in Ecuador in
2006. Girguis is a professor of sculpture at
Cairo University’s faculty of fine arts, and is
considered a pioneer of metal cast statues.
Over 50 years of experience, Girguis has used
different materials including brass and bronze,
which....
Article
of
the
Day
Blame the victim for crying
By Youssef Sidhom,
Watani News
It is not surprising that problems left to
intensify and aggravate over some 25 years
should finally blow up. Throughout the last
ten years I repeatedly wrote about the
problem concerning the land East of Deir al-Adra
(The Convent of the Holy Virgin) in Gabal
Assiut or Assiut Mountain, which was
designated by the Antiquities Authority as a
precinct to the Deir, meaning that it was
out of bounds for any urban activity. The
last time I wrote I pointed out that the
problem was now a quarter-of-a-century old
and with no settlement in sight. All
through, Assiut officials have been
reluctant to execute decisions already
issued in favour of the Deir. For those who
may not know it, the Deir is in the main
part an imposing conglomerate of churches
and guest houses built in an architectural
style that blends harmoniously with the
surrounding mountain. The focal point of the
Deir and its raison d’être is the huge cave
which, according to tradition, hosted the
Holy Family for some six months during their
flight into Egypt in the first century. As
such, the Deir carries very special
historical and religious significance, and
is a piece of heritage Assiutis are
particularly proud of. The 25-year-old
problem is live witness to the tyranny and
arrogance of the security authorities, and
to their amazing immunity to questioning and
accountability....
Selected Articles
Economic summit challenge
The Egyptian Gazette
Will economy succeed where has politics
failed? This is the question that challenges
the first Arab Economic and Social
Development Summit slated for January 2009
in Kuwait. The summit, to be attended by
economy and finance ministers, is expected
to discuss health, trade, tourism, transport
and investment issues related to the daily
lives of 330 million Arabs. Given the
current international world food crisis, its
repercussions in the Arab world is expected
to take priority on the summit's agenda....
Selected
Articles
Key step missing
The Egyptian Gazette
The Ministry of Health has so far spent LE1
billion (about $188 million) on upgrading
the emergency services, which have been
declining for many years. This huge amount
of money has been used to purchase 1,200
well-equipped ambulances, the sirens of 220
of which have already started wailing.
There's also a new wireless network to
ensure they respond swiftly in an emergency.
Meanwhile, ambulance crews and paramedics
will be given thorough training courses to
hone their....
By
Copts-United
Stop harassment
Almost half of
Egyptian women are sexually harassed on a daily
basis with more than half of Egyptian men
admitting lewd behaviour, the Egyptian Centre
for Women's Rights said. The group polled 2,020
people - including men and foreign women - in
Cairo, and the centre's director, Nihad Abul
Qomsan, said that the figures showed harassment
was on the rise.Of those surveyed, 83 per cent
of Egyptian women and 98 per cent of foreign....
