epchois_nai_nan
About
- Username
- epchois_nai_nan
- Joined
- Visits
- 0
- Last Active
- Roles
- Full Member
Comments
-
I agree - this is disgusting. It is good that we are expressing that disgust though - whenever Muslims make similar insults of our faith, it is always comforting to see other Muslims speaking out and condemning their actions. It is very good that we…
-
Is there any way to check which school is winning? I put my votes in but I'd like to know the Coptic schools are going :)
-
[coptic]an `,ouws vyetqen ]Ajpia qen `pqa`e `nte niajp tyrou? ie masenak `epaima`nnat[/coptic] Do you mean the one in the Agpia at the end of every hour? If so, just go to this site: http://www.remenkimi.com/ [coptic]ouoh ariwvi ejen (nijwm `nte ]…
-
How interesting :) Yeah, I thought it best to ask because I know how Wikipedia can be unreliable. Do you know how we can get a hold of that book Mina? What's it called? I'd be very interested in getting a copy. Thanks, PFM
-
[quote author=✞ Stavroforos ✞ link=topic=9482.msg116930#msg116930 date=1279856315] Not to argue or anything, just a thought but why not take every opportunity to strengthen our faith by believing in a miracle and only draw a line and be skeptical wh…
-
There should never be anything wrong with questioning things like this. Skepticism is very important, as many people have been lead astray by false miracles. As Fr. Peter said, faith is not credulity - it is based on evidence. Believing something be…
-
Hey I Believe I think you have to extract it first...when you download it its a .rar file which you need a program to extract. It sounds like you're using a Mac like me since you said Quick time and iTunes :D If you are, just download this program: …
-
I think that circle can be squared because evolution is not a process of chance. Even staunch atheists like Richard Dawkins argue passionately that there is nothing random about evolution - he insists that natural selection is a natural force, like …
-
C.S. Lewis is INCREDIBLE :D I've just started reading 'The Screwtape Letters' and it is amazing. I would start with 'The Screwtape Letters' because his other books like Mere Christianity and the Problem of Pain are pretty heavy and get dull, but the…
-
From what I heard its actually a photo of another bishop taken on the day of his funeral - no relation to Pope Kyrillos at all. PFM
-
Hi Dominatus, You can find the text of Our Father in Coptic here: http://tasbeha.org/hymn_library/index.php?a=view&id=2268 And here's an English transliteration: Je Peniot et khen ni fi-owi Maref-touvo enje pekran Mares-ee enje tek-met-ooro …
-
Hi ophadece In response to your question - I've been using a Demotic dictionary to compare spelling. You can find the dictionary here - but the University hasn't completed every letter yet. Look under '3ein' (the first entry) or 'O' to find 'W' in …
-
It's not an '[coptic]O[/coptic]' (pronounced quickly as in 'lost'), it's an '[coptic]`W[/coptic]' (pronounced longer, as in 'faun'). It's actually an ancient Egyptian grammatical form - it wasn't simply copied from Western languages; but the mean…
-
[coptic]Ielel ielel `w ]ekklycia `nte pi
-
I'm not a theologian, but my two cents worth is that Jesus was not praying to Himself, but to God the Father. It's important to differentiate between the three hypostases of the Trinity - at this point in time, God the Son had assumed human form and…
-
Here's one :D http://www.orthodoxsermons.org/sermons/do-not-be-unbelieving-believing Enjoy
-
It's best not to put too much stock into traditions like these unless they can be backed up by independent evidence. Jesus opening His eyes after having died creates some theological problems I would think. It's a nice story - but whether or not it …
-
That doesn't bother me, half the tunes we use in the church were used to praise pagan Egyptian gods - I find Quranic tunes musically beautiful in and of themselves, like all Middle Eastern music, regardless of how they're used. No music exists in a …
-
Wow, it definitely sounds somewhat Arabicised, but I still think its beautiful. Is the other tune we use, the normal one, supposed to be of Egyptian origin? jydeacon, do you know of a Lamentations done Abouna Mettias?
-
No offence to anybody but this article seems completely unconvincing to me. Art is meant to be interpreted, that's what students do in English class - but someone's interpretation is not evidence of anything. Perfect example: the VERY FIRST CLAIM t…
-
Most of my information comes simply from comparing Bohairic words with their equivalents in Sahidic and Demotic (which was the last stage of Egyptian writing before Coptic, a very simplified set of hieroglyphics). The main problem with Bohairic is t…
-
They are only about as different as the Arabic spoken in Upper and Lower Egypt. There were small differences in vocabulary (e.g. people around Alexandria would have used 'em-ep-redi' to mean 'like/as' whereas people in the Sahid wouldve said 'en-te-…
-
Wow, I've never heard of this before, but interestingly, that's very close to how you would pronounce the word: [coptic]:eotokia[/coptic] in Old Bohairic: "Ta-odokia" Even though it is a Greek word, it appears as though it was pronounced with th…
-
Didn't Jesus rebuke the Pharisees when they told Him not to heal on the Sabbath? He told them that if they had a donkey stuck in a ditch, they would help it regardless of the day? I think the same principle applies here...
-
I think the tradition is that Joseph was an old man when Mary was chosen to be betrothed to him, and she was betrothed to him as a carer, not as a lover. She was only a teenager whereas he would have been much, much older so there was nothing romant…
-
There's a really beautiful one by Nicole Nordeman called: 'Why' And one of my favourites is 'I Am' by Mark Schultz. Yeah and all of Casting Crowns' songs are awesome. [coptic]mare `v] `cmou `erwten tyrou[/coptic] God bless
-
Couldn't you just ask the professor if he'd mind if you passed the recording on to some friends? If he still says no then I suppose you'd just have to apologise to your friends and tell them to go talk to the professor.
-
I've heard (and suspect there is probably quite a bit of truth to this) that this is because in Egypt the best professions for a Christian are Medicine and Engineering, but of course that's not the case in the Diaspora. The other factor is the fact …
-
Hey cheeky I'm doing the HSC too :D It's LOADS of fun isn't it ;) Ah well, try not to stress too much - I know two people who didn't do that well in the HSC, one is now the second highest ranked policeman in NSW, heading investigations into intern…