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Hi @minatasgeel I still don't get the point of your question really. I hope @msmekhael has answered your question to some extent. Anyway, I am hoping that you will enlighten me with your answer lest I misunderstand what you mean - I actually know ho…
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@minatasgeel, I don't get your point actually. The way I see it is that our dogmas and faith are connected to our hymns and we may be spreading wrong teachings by compromising and pleasing the majority. I hope I understood at least partly your quest…
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Dear @msmekhael I can't describe enough how pleased I am to see that we are in agreement 110% and not just 100%, thanks a lot really. The only thing I have an issue with, but I do know it is a personal problem, is that we keep doing what we are doin…
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Hi @msmekhael, Thank you very much for your post. I can see that you thoroughly understood my point and I will therefore need not repeat the things I said before. Now I have heard this saying too many times in different versions, "rites were made fo…
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Yes @minatasgeel and that leads us to the discussion on the common wrong vs the unrecognised right. For me just because some people find it OK to say something that doesn't make it right and it should only mean they need to be taught. We have a vari…
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Many thanks @minatasgeel.. very well said. By the way I forgot to say something in the post I wrote above, please also note that tasbeha hymns (be it midnight praises, vespers praises, etc) should not be used during the liturgy and especially commun…
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Dear all, Like @Daniel_Kyrillos I was waiting for someone more knowledgeable to shed more light on the answer of @theseanvert. However let's be very clear and not confused about something (unfortunately we all live in the diaspora where the practice…
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Thanks @Daniel_Kyrillos, I assumed that people know this but please be careful that whether we calculate the day on the Jewish calendar day, or Gregorian calendar day, two Communion distributions must not take place on any one day, hence the violati…
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Hi @menafayik, Yes it was just for convenience as you rightly said. As Mina pointed above, the genuine rites for liturgies used to be in the early hours of the morning, while it's dark and after midnight praises, a practice still followed in the Egy…
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Hi @msmekhael, Thank you very much for your post. I will thoroughly reply to all your points later, I hope by the weekend, or if not, right after. Have a blessed Theophany feast.. Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ Ⲡϭⲥ
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Hi @menafayik, I believe the reason is a historical one with the advent of government and governmental positions in the 19th century as far as I am aware, hence people missing the prayers. I think therefore it was decided that liturgies would be sta…
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Hi @Minaeskander, I actually have no idea if pope Shenouda had entered a mosque, but if he did then he had also transgressed. It's interesting you said not to confuse politics with religion and that's the whole point of my post. Politics is being us…
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Hi @ReturnOrthodoxy, I can't agree more with what you said. I actually think people of this age are more stubborn and hard to convince. I have one question though, what do you mean saying 71 were obnoxious? Are you describing the people who persecut…
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Hi @minatasgeel You may have misunderstood my point. A lot of the time I log in to the website through the mobile and it is not easy to expand on my thoughts easily so I am sorry for that.. At no point ever have I or do I intimate isolation. I don't…
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Dear @Joshuaa,All your comments are great, and generally agree with what I said before; many thanks for elaborating on them so nicely. However, let me be clear, because I didn't want someone to compare apples to oranges. St Paul went into Greek temp…
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Thanks a lot dear @Amdah, no apology needed at all.. I benefited from your comments, so I thank you for something that you should not apologise for having said.. Psychologically speaking you hit the nail on the head and I totally agree.. I just hope…
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Dear @Amdah, Thank you very much for your post. Please do search for the theme "شركة المؤمنين مع غير المؤمنين" on st-takla.org, which translates to "communion of the faithful with the unfaithful" and you will find many resources from which I extract…
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Thanks @minatasgeel,I hope you have not assumed that I looked these up on a whim; my understanding is you can read Arabic, so please search www.st-takla.org and you will find a huge number of resources..Oujai qen P[c
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Message 3/3 1 Peter 2:9 - "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." All the above verses have been cop…
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Message 2/3 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - "Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple."2 Corinthians 6:…
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Message 1/3 Hi @minatasgeel and all,I managed to be on the computer, so there you go: Exodus 34:12 - "Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst."Deuteronomy 7:2 - "and w…
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Thanks @minatasgeel, I will do that later of course from the computer.. Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ Ⲡϭⲥ
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Hi @minatasgeel I guess you know St Paul's teachings and commandments by other apostles too let alone the Old Testament. Please let me know if you want me to highlight to you what these are, I'd be happy to, but I am sure you don't need it.. Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ …
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Good point @ItalianCoptic but is it for politics that we betray our faith? Of course we know why some people view politics as being the satan released from captivity to mislead God's people before the second coming.. Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ Ⲡϭⲥ
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@Joshuaa, I guess he was greeting the Muslim folk for the new mosque built and he was invited to give a speech! Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ Ⲡϭⲥ
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Hi @Jojo_Hanna I meant bishops and priests marrying (praying the marriage ceremony) people from different denominations and/or faiths.. Hi @minatasgeel, You said "in a faith that is based on the development of our spirit towards God throughout our…
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Once again I can see I annoyed you this much, I am really sorry. I hope I know how not to annoy you with my being stuck on a particular topic or argument.. Sorry again @minatasgeel.. We don't change based on our spiritual development, this is the fi…
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Hi Mina, I can see that you are getting defensive.. No need to be defensive, I hope I have not offended you anyway.. That's exactly what I mean; the passage of the woes is the same like in all commemoration of the prophets days. We still read the s…
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Dear @Jojo_Hanna Maybe other members who are better clued up on synod's decisions can shed more light. I am probably not the best person to explain historic facts about what has happened, but simply speaking I don't like the idea of choosing less fo…
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Only recently, but I don't know the exact dates.. Must be in the last 5 or 10 years.. Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ Ⲡϭⲥ