St. Paul American Coptic Orthodox Church Podcast - Sermon
Jul 12, 2026 · 17 min · 7 segments
HG Bishop Abraam - Abraam - Homily for Feast of the Apostles. Saint Peter's life teaches that no failure is final: through calling, falling, repenting, and restoration, Christ transforms weakness into…
You may hear your church after the name of St. Paul, but a few times we talk about St. Peter.
We know St. Peter from the scriptures when we read about all events he attended with our Lord.
But St. Peter, After the resurrection, our Lord said to him, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Feed my sheep.
And here we find that this is the beginning or restoration of St. Peter to the apostleship after he denied Christ.
But the biography of an apostle, it's not only a story, we read it, but the story, the biography of Saint Peter, it's a story of every believer who falls repents and restored by Christ.
The Lord did not choose perfect people.
He chose people willing to be changed and followed him from all their hearts.
We read in the Gospel in many locations that our Lord called somebody and he followed him without even asking.
He said that to Matthew.
He said to him, come, follow me.
The same thing with St. Peter.
St. John Chrysostom, he said one time, what St. Peter left for Christ? A broken net? and a boat.
For him, this is his treasury.
But St. John Chrysostom continued and said, and what St. Peter gained of following Christ He gained the whole people and the whole churches and in the book of Acts mentioned that the people sold their lands and brought up the money not in his hand but at his feet of the apostles.
So he left a broken net, he left a boat, but he gained many.
He was an ordinary fisherman.
They perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men.
But again, St. John Chrysostom said that Christ chose fishermen so that no one would attribute the success of the gospel to human wisdom but to divine power.
You may hear your church after the name of St. Paul, but a few times we talk about St. Peter.
We know St. Peter from the scriptures when we read about all events he attended with our Lord.
But St. Peter, After the resurrection, our Lord said to him, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Feed my sheep.
And here we find that this is the beginning or restoration of St. Peter to the apostleship after he denied Christ.
But the biography of an apostle, it's not only a story, we read it, but the story, the biography of Saint Peter, it's a story of every believer who falls repents and restored by Christ.
The Lord did not choose perfect people.
He chose people willing to be changed and followed him from all their hearts.
We read in the Gospel in many locations that our Lord called somebody and he followed him without even asking.
He said that to Matthew.
He said to him, come, follow me.
The same thing with St. Peter.
St. John Chrysostom, he said one time, what St. Peter left for Christ? A broken net? and a boat.
For him, this is his treasury.
But St. John Chrysostom continued and said, and what St. Peter gained of following Christ He gained the whole people and the whole churches and in the book of Acts mentioned that the people sold their lands and brought up the money not in his hand but at his feet of the apostles.
So he left a broken net, he left a boat, but he gained many.
He was an ordinary fisherman.
They perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men.
But again, St. John Chrysostom said that Christ chose fishermen so that no one would attribute the success of the gospel to human wisdom but to divine power.
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