[quote author=ophadece link=topic=12000.msg143954#msg143954 date=1314823673]
Dear Unworthy1,
Why are you doubting many things on this thread man? Not able to come to terms of how the Coptic church is so stern in her canons. If so, then we only have …
[quote author=imikhail link=topic=12000.msg143951#msg143951 date=1314810761]
For leniency the Church allowed sitting, but the original had no sitting.
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I really doubt this. Christ sat around a table with his disciples during the Eucharist. …
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=12000.msg143938#msg143938 date=1314778425]
Ok guys, what I've been talking about all along, and sorry if I was vague is smiling to somebody else, as a gesture of greeting them. I never spoke of smiling per se as I a…
[quote author=Κηφᾶς link=topic=12160.msg143928#msg143928 date=1314767589]
+ Irini nem ehmot,
Micheal (meaning: 'Who is like God') role: Head of the Angels (particularly the angelic army) - Symbol of God the Father who is the fountainhead of Trinity…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=12000.msg143902#msg143902 date=1314734300]
Sorry for being that late in replying. Busy last couple of days...
Instructions for the deacon as per the euchologion book of "nahdet el kanayes":
(3) should imagine at his…
[quote author=OftheLord link=topic=11572.msg143852#msg143852 date=1314601369]
My brother whom you have been praying for has been taking medication for the past three months. Now he is checked again for the Cancers that he had developed. According t…
[quote author=christ_rose link=topic=12200.msg143787#msg143787 date=1314548613]
In response to unworthy
That is the completely wron message that I was trying to avoid!! OUR CHURH IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND CORRECT CHURCH IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. Most of…
Yeah why should we even bother with theology or patristics or anything that causes any division really? We should all just love God. That's it - it's so simple. I mean what is the point of learning Coptic? Just love God, forget that silly old langua…
[quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=12181.msg143770#msg143770 date=1314513867]
[quote author=Midiane link=topic=12181.msg143611#msg143611 date=1314189911]
Hi all
Mods/admins, please move this topic if it's not in the right area. I haven't been on this…
[quote author=Severian link=topic=12120.msg143754#msg143754 date=1314489502]
^Think of it this way... If Origen has something insightful to say on the Gospel of John, then great! Use his insight. But, would you use Origen's writings in order to refu…
[quote author=Severian link=topic=12120.msg143752#msg143752 date=1314488554]
[quote author=Unworthy1 link=topic=12120.msg143751#msg143751 date=1314487040]
But we still refer to the writings of Origen! I think that is what copticuser is getting at.
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I don't have that book and I can't read arabic. Also, I don't know the context of the instruction. So, I can't rely on it. Plus in arabic "smiling" and "laughing" are the same words - right? It is more likely the book was referring to laughing. . .
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=12000.msg143740#msg143740 date=1314430770]
Of course that's ok mabsoota if you are smiling as a result of attaining the most holy Grace, but not looking at others and smiling, or greeting somebody with a smile etc. …
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=12000.msg143715#msg143715 date=1314373605]
Dear Midiane,
If you read any euchologion's preface, you will notice that instructions to deacons state that they should not even greet each other. Greetings should only be…
[quote author=Severian link=topic=12193.msg143675#msg143675 date=1314319904]
This letter was written in the nineteenth century from the Russian Church seeking to reunite with the Coptic Orthodox Church:
I laid the foundations for an approximation e…
[quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=12181.msg143648#msg143648 date=1314232091]
I don't know if the Synod has decided on this.
the thing is that, many priests begin the tarheem right after the deacon's response "let those who read." the priest ment…
[quote author=churchbob link=topic=12185.msg143660#msg143660 date=1314300351]
Actually I got working. thanks alot for your help. I really appreciate it.
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No problem. Did you find the recordings you wanted?
[quote author=Joshuaa link=topic=12190.msg143662#msg143662 date=1314305859]
But Unworthy1 if others are getting hurt, why can't you protect them? How do we know that the hurt could be more than they can cope with? I could see the suffering as a be…
1 Corinthians 6, NKJV said:Do Not Sue the Brethren
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be ju…
Try this: alhan-youthbishopric.
There should be something in the middle of the page to click on which directs you to an "alhan search" by hymn, occasion, or chanter.
Click on the last drop-down (third one down) which is the chanter option. Moalem…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=12175.msg143633#msg143633 date=1314215458]
No offence taken of course, but I hope you forgive me this time for sounding blunt. I just don't see a point in having that argument all over again. You may like to scroll …