The Church celebrates the Feast of Nayrouz as the beginning of the Coptic year, a season that marks the height of martyrdom under the reign of the pagan emperor Diocletian. Just as the Church of the New Covenant was born through the crucifixion and death of Christ on the cross as an infinite sacrifice of love, so too does the Coptic Church offer her calendar, consecrated by the blood of the martyrs, as a true expression of her love for Jesus Christ, her Lord. It is through this faith, unshakable hope, and longing for eternal life with Christ in heaven, that she beholds a glory beyond words one that cannot be fully expressed or comprehended. As Saint Paul reminds us: ‘For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.’ (1 Cor. 13:12)