His Holiness Pope Tawadros II Participates in the Church Administration and Development Course for the New Priests in LOGOS, Egypt
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, prayed the Holy Liturgy today in the Church of the Transfiguration in the LOGOS Center in the Papal Residence in the Monastery of St. Anba Bishoy in Wadi El-Natroun, Egypt, with the presence of the new Priests who were ordained at the beginning of the Great Lent as they spend the forty-day period following their ordination in the monasteries of Wadi El-Natroun.
His Holiness had delivered a lecture yesterday evening to the 25 new priests, at the conclusion of the training course they received in “Ecclesiastical Management and Development”, which began at Logos Papal Centre last Wednesday.
In the lecture, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II addressed the topic of “Service Obstacles in the Life of a Priest and How to Deal With Them,” as H.H. indicated the following:
1- Missing the purpose of consecration (be righteous)
2- The wars of the ego and the self (be humble)
3- Culture of the Occult (Be pure in your thoughts)
4- Little Foxes, including wars of body, mind and soul (be careful)
5- Absence of thought and teamwork (be interactive)
6- Poverty of creativity (be innovative)
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II had a conversation with the fathers to learn about the extent to which they benefited from the training, and about their lives and their new Church service.
The training process during the course was carried out by the teachers of the “Coptic Institute for Church Administration and Development” “COPTICAD”, led by Dr. Magdy Latif Al-Sindi, Dean of the Institute…
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