HE CHANGED THE TRIP’S PROGRAM
AFTER KNOWING POPE KYROLLOS, I WISHED I COULD VISIT ST MINA’S MONASTERY, AS I
HAD NOT VISITED IT SINCE ELEVEN YEARS AGO. AT THE END OF LAST SUMMER, IT WAS
ANNOUNCED IN OUR CITY THAT THERE WOULD BE A TRIP TO THE COASTAL MONASTERIES FOR
5 DAYS. I BOUGHT A TICKET HOPING THAT WE WOULD VISIT ST MINA’S MONASTERY. I THEN
ASKED THE PRIEST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRIP WHETHER ST MINA’S MONASTERY WAS
INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM. HE INFORMED ME THAT DUE TO THE SHORT DURATION OF THE
TRIP, ST MINA’S MONASTERY WAS NOT INCLUDED. PRIOR TO THE TRIP, I WENT TO CHURCH
AND STOOD IN FRONT OF POPE KYROLLOS’ PICTURE, PRAYING AND ASKING HIM TO
INTERCEED AND LET THE TRIP’S PROGRAM CHANGE, SO WE COULD VISIT HIM. AND THAT WAS
WHAT HAPPENED!!!. IN THE BEGINNING OF OUR TRIP I WAS INFORMED THAT THE PROGRAM
WAS CHANGED TO INCLUDE SAINT MINA’S MONASTERY, WHERE POPE KYROLLOS’ SHRINE IS
SITUATED.
WE WENT TO SAINT MINA’S MONASTERY AND WE ATTENDED THE MASS THERE.THEN WE WENT
THROUGH THE BARAMOUS MONASTERY ROUT, VISITING POPE KYROLLOS’ PRIVATE CELL. WE
THEN RETURNED TO CAIRO AND VISITED THE OLD WINDMILL WHERE HIS HOLLINESS RESIDED
FOR A WHILE.
I THANK OUR LORD FOR HIS LOVE, AND POPE KYROLLOS THE GREAT INTERCESSOR, FOR THE
PROGRAM CHANGE WHICH ALLOWED US TO VISIT ST MINA’S MONASTERY, POPE KYROLLOS’
CELL AND THE OLD WINDMILL……..
BELIEVE AND YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE SERIES
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