Pope Shenouda III – författare

The dangers of the new heresies, refuted in this book, are that they originate from people who are within the Church-or who were so-and that these heresies were used to wrongly express the Orthodox faith. Some of those, who wrote and spread these heresies, have lived abroad and have become influenced by the ideological deviations that are there. Others, though they have not been abroad, have read books published by Western writers, have become influenced by them, have adopted their ideas, and have desired to spread what they have adopted. And yet there are others who love any new opinion, the foreign, anomalous, and they see self-glory in spreading it-for they now know what others do not. His Holiness Pope Shenouda III addresses, in this book, some of the most dangerous new heresies, which constitute theological concepts of the uttermost gravity. Out of His Holiness' responsibility to preserve the teaching of the Church pure of any blemish, he explains the erroneous ideas, so that our generation may hand it down to the coming generations sound as it has been handed down to us.

Pope Shenouda's life stands as an icon and very real example of service, a service we can all aspire to learn from. This book contains a collection of Pope Shenouda's teachings on service which he used to give at St Reuiss Cathedral in Cairo, at a servant's preparation meeting attended by thousands of servants over the years.

Treat this book as a handbook, a field manual to serving, to being a person who lives and breathes service as Christ did. In it you will find writings on an array of topics relevant to service and ministry. Use it to challenge yourself, to always improve yourself, to ask yourself, am I a true servant?

This book discusses christian spiritual fasting in detail and is of great benefit to all who want to understand why we fast and it's benefits.

Pope Shenouda was Pope and Patriach of the Coptic Orthodox Church.