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Short Stories (Stories for the Youth), book by Father Tadros Yacoub Malaty

184- The Night of Preparation

 

St-Takla.org Image: Some people (men and women) attending the Holy Liturgy (mass) at St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, at Saint Mina Monastery, Mariout, Alexandria, Egypt - Date of photo: October 2009 - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: بعض الشعب (رجال ونساء) يحضرون صلاة القداس الإلهي (الإفخارستيا) في كنيسة السيدة العذراء مريم بدير الشهيد مارمينا بمريوط، الإسكندرية، مصر - تاريخ الصورة: أكتوبر 2009 - تصوير مايكل غالي لـ: موقع الأنبا تكلا.

A Minister was invited to a banquet on Saturday night but he said he would not be able to attend. When he was asked to give a reason for not going, he said, “When a surgeon is responsible for an operation he’s usually busy by sterilization; he doesn’t touch anything. I dedicate the Saturdays for sitting with my Master in order to be ready to serve His people on Sundays.”

→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: ليلة الاستعداد.

Lord let me be the physician of souls.

You are the Great Physician.

I serve so that they would be holy in You.

I shall carry You to the souls of my injured friends

And not carry them the poison of my hidden sins.

Draw me away! We will run after You.

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