13-Dec-2025 | Week 50

The Holy Nativity Fast

Romans 8:35-39
He is Victorious
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Commentary
“Pain and tribulations no longer destroy the soul. Indeed, they have become the reason for joining the procession of conquest and victory under the leadership of the suffering and crucified Lord Jesus Christ.”

~ Fr Tadros Malaty

Reflection
Question 1
How can we live with this persuasion that St. Paul speaks of?