Love: Living Liturgy; Living Theology

The patriarch who became the monk to us all. He truly was a father to all of us and he holds a special place in my heart! Pope Cyril the 6th was not a man of high education (high school education) but he brought the Coptic Church into the modern world. He paved the road for Patriarch Shenouda III. The love he had for his children always greeting every single individual to the point where he would faint and they would have to help him. His strengthen to the church was truly perfected in his weakness! A man of deep prayer and he was famously remembered for praying a liturgy every morning before he began his day and continued this tradition when he was ordained to the bishopric of Alexandria. The more he prayed the more he struggled as he is so often quoted as saying "I prayed for a pure heart, it took me a long time and a hard struggle to discover that prayer itself is the only road to a pure heart." He was truly the father to all of us. He had a special gift that many never understood or could comprehend because out of his humility he would leave many confused with there encounter with him. So many stories are left for us however I can't do any justice to them. Lastly, he was an individual who truly never lived for the "I" and the "ME" but rather lived for Him whom he saw in all of us. His liturgy was not finished by the morning time but rather he constantly lived out his liturgy to all of us. Even though he was not educated he lived out his theology and his remembered for being a father to our two great modern theologians (Patriarch Shenouda and Father Matthew the Poor). There is a lot we can learn from him. The one small aspect I would take from his life is how he prayed. He never used words and its been documented that every liturgy he prayed he prayed with tears. Living in the body of Christ is a struggle but out of this struggled he never once lived for himself but was truly the Christ image in the world. The following are a few pictures of Pope Cyril (Kirolos) the 6th: 

The following picture were take from Fr.Kyrollos Facebook page.