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[quote author=gregorytheSinner link=topic=8134.msg104848#msg104848 date=1248292007] well alot of sins are embarrassing personally i'd me more embarrassed to tell a priest i stole [/quote] are you saying you would be less embarrassed to say you comm…
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About the first hymn I posted, thanks for telling me the name... I found some interesting links: http://tasbeha.org/hymn_library/index.php?a=view&id=691 http://www.copticheritage.org/parameters/copticheritage/studies/Agios_Istin_Analysis.pdf ht…
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One thing I've learned is that you must return to God with your heart 100% focused on Him, not 50% God and 50% your desires. You cannot have both, or you'll end up back where you started. Keep in mind, sin is enjoyable, but it never satisfies (read …
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When you guys say, "embarrassing sins," you guys are talking about adultery, right?? I cannot think of another embarrassing sin at the moment...
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Obviously Anba Bishoy...
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What is this hymn for? Tell me everything you know about it please! Hopefully someone knows coptic to translate... BTW yesterday (2 hours and 40 minutes ago) was Archangel Michael's... fast or w/e you call it, so here you go:
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Can I just clarify something. . . In your opinion, is adultery the only embarrassing sin to confess? Or did you guys have something else in mind?
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We should be thankful for all things, first the big, general things (like your house, your life, etc), then the small things, then the unseen things (peace, your health), then the negative things in life.
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Can you take communion if you've repented but not confessed?
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[quote author=SuperMAN(BAM) link=topic=1747.msg27003#msg27003 date=1117652578] he did things that were not appropriate by the church... like cutting off a part of his body... [/quote] What's wrong with that? Didn't Jesus Himself say to do that if …
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If there is no good in them, then why did Jesus fulfill their wish to be sent into the pigs (from the demon-possessed man in the Bible)? Do you think that He shows slight mercy to them, even though they're fallen?
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=6499.msg85985#msg85985 date=1208430759] d) Now, the underlying question is this: What if you are baptised, and you believe, and have not confessed a sin (KNOWINGLY) out of embarassement?? What happens?? What does th…
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Saint Bishoy lived in the same community with saint John the short... and saint Ephraim was walking to saint Bishoy's cell to visit him, and he left his stick close by, because he saw it inappropriate to walk on a Great saint with his stick... so l…
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When does a deacon go counterclockwise again?
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......... Then what does avva mean? I think it's slang for abba... but doesn't that mean father?
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Moses' burning bush: BTW is this really his bush?
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St. Barsoum's tree: At the end of 1995, during a clean-up of the land of the monastery, a palm tree was discovered. Its trunk branches into three at the height of 1.70 m. Normal branching in palm trees occurs at the base of the trunk. Therefore, t…
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Other famous trees: Virgin Mary's tree in Cairo (where the Holy Family sheltered during their flight to Egypt):
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Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name Of The Lord What does that mean exactly? :-[
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Well, this isn't an item, but I remember hearing my bishop saying that the number 8 was symbolic of a new beginning...but this is what I got out of his sermon which was spoken in arabic ??? - Males being circumcised 8 days after birth - 8 people in…
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What does "Penyot" mean? ???
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Okay, so let me get this straight: Liturgy of St. Basil, St. Cyril/Mark ==> God the Father Liturgy of St. Gregory ==> God the Son I think I remember hearing there was a liturgy directed to the Holy Trinity, am I right? The Liturgy of St.Mark…
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I visited his monastery in Egypt once... very small, but I saw they were building a new one. Here's his movie: http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=8521572209224905682&hl=un It has english subtitles if you don't know arabic... I haven't seen …
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St Mary & St Abraam church in Ajax, Ontario, Canada But I'll be going to univ. next year in Cairo & the church I go to there is St George in Heliopolis. . . . who else goes to that church??
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Here's my little two cents: The present sufferings of this world are not worth comparing to the glorious riches in the Kingdom of Heaven. "For the joy set before him He endured the cross" If women know about all the pain and suffering they're go…