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Peaceful Demonstration
The demonstration will take place
this Friday (Jan 15th, 2010) at 12 noon till 2p in downtown Dallas at
the federal building. The address is:
Dallas Federal
Building, 1100 Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas 75201
Due to the difficulty of parking
there; we have a gathering at St Abanoub’s at 10a and we’ll take the train to
downtown Dallas as mentioned in the attached file. It’ll be a silent
demonstration without chanting, but raising up the crosses, the signs and giving
out brochures to the public. No attacking of Islam nor of the Egyptian
government is allowed.
Please make time to come and join us
for the sake of our brethren in Egypt. We have picked Friday at noon to reach
out to the people in downtown Dallas during a busy time of the
day.
Note: this Friday liturgy will take
place from 8-10a instead of 9-11a for this reason.
Nativity
My Beloved Brethren, Happy blessed and glorious Feast of the Nativity! This feast is the heart and soul of the New Covenant between God and man. It is certainly a fulfillment of the Law, a prophecy long foretold and awaited. It is an anticipation and a dream revealed and fulfilled of the birth of a future king. Saint Mary Story
Saint Abanoub
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As St. Mary the Mother of God (Theotokos) and the Virgin was always praying in the holy sepulchre, the Holy Spirit informed her that she was about to depart from this temporal world. When the time of her departure arrived, the virgins of the Mount of Olives came to her, with the apostles, who were still alive, and they surrounded her bed. The Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom is the glory, with a host of thousands and thousands of angels came to her and comforted her and told her about the eternal joy that was prepared for her, and she rejoiced. The apostles and the virgins asked her to bless them. She stretched her hand and blessed them all, and she gave up her pure spirit in the hand of her Son and God, and He took her spirit to the heavenly mansions. 
Abanoub was born in a town called Nehisa in the Nile Delta. He was the only son of good Christian parents who died when he was a young child. At the age of twelve, Abanoub entered the church to hear the priest asking the congregation to remain faithful during the persecutions provoked by Diocletian, the Roman emperor.