In this short sermon, His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, speaks to us about martyrdom, the saints, and what it means to live a saintly life.
Message from His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, during a prayer service in the Order of the British Empire Chapel in St Paul’s Cathedral. The prayers were for those suffering religious persecution, and the service was held on the same day that His Grace received an OBE for ‘Services to International Religious Freedom’ from Her Majesty The Queen.
In this talk His Grace Bishop Angaelos speaks about the challenges we face on a daily basis, explaining that if we choose to live a faithful Christian life we will face persecution on some level, but that we should never fall into a state of victim-hood, using the three saintly youth in the book of Daniel in the Bible as an example of that.
In this talk, His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, speaks about Daniel in the Old Testament and uses him as an example for us to follow in trying to live a Godly, faithful life despite the various challenges we face.
