@minasoliman...the priests were not summoned to egypt, but they did the first "Northeastern USA Priests Convention" just because the Pope cancelled his visit that was supposed to take place this month.
@minasoliman...I don't think Abouna Athanasius concentrated on the 'woman' part as much as he did on where is the orban was being made. I think this is so based on how much he wrote concerning 'lawful" or 'unlawful' orban based on how it's made late…
God is good...i didn't have to look too far.
Fr. Athanasius El-Makari has a book called "The Divine Liturgy: the Mystery of the Kingdom" (two parts). In the first part, page 180, section called "Baking the Orban and preparing it." The book is in ara…
@minasoliman...I am not actually sure. What i am saying is based on experience rather than a source. We never had a consecrated deaconess in church to be put in the position of them making the hamal. But we did have some old ladies at some point of …
@ophadece
I am not trying to drive anyone away. But there are limits to how much we can argue about something and there are standards to someone making a point. One of those standards is to try to understand and tolerate the other party's ideas and …
@ophadece...I am sorry, but now you are pushing it a little. GB is the current accepted pronunciation of Coptic in the church, therefore it's part of our heritage. If for any reason that developed into a different whole new pronunciation, that also …
There is a handful of people that are posing these allegations against Anba Daniel without any proof. I say without any proof because, if there was proof, these wouldn't be allegations anymore but facts....and it would of been really really hard for…
babros, i don't think you'll find a better an answer than what minasoliman said. Anyone who is Muslim is no difference than anyone who is not Christian.
What other answer are you looking for exactly? Do you have a specific assumption that we can dis…
It good to know how things are done in other churches, specially if they are sister churches. But you have to consider that every local church may have it's own circumstances and view of things. In the Armenian church, they "ordain" (atleast that's …
1- these are canons that may be changes by the Synod2- this is a local council to, I think, Church of Antioch. So the Church of Alexandria were probably not bound to it
- Evol hiten is only part of the sunday midnight tasbeha.- Alli elasr is any vespers praise- aretenthoni is unique to saturday vespers praise- ti-galili a is unique to wednesday vespers praise and the feasts of entering egypt and the temple- the 8th…
the names of those mentioned after the Commemoration are the departed, not the living. As for all other prayers for the living, you're allowed to pray for anyone.
@Remnkemi...how about putting together a quick document for a proper translation for the 3 main parts of the hymn? The latter verses are just "The blessing of...."
Those are hymns that are not part of the difnar and they are unique to each saint. The difnar is also unique to each saint. But the hymns and the difnar are totally separate.
The Difnar is translate and available on Coptic Reader and in print from St Moses Abbey. Currently, it's similar to a senixar...each day have difnar selection from difnar saints. each selection is similar to a psali, but each has a tune based on the…
--My question is this: believing in as much as I do, can I convert?
To answer your question, No!
Orthodox Christianity doesn't declare all what you believe as faith.
Good question.
So, this specific aripresvevin, and similar verses that are said for saints (those are also mostly the same as the last part of their doxologies), in the context of a tamgeed, they are to be said in the Sha'anini tune. This will also …
Hello venadoazul,
Good luck in dealing with this situation. Just pray enough about it.
I do have some comments about the subject though and concerning what you said: "our Church is too complicated"
I kind of disagree...not just with you, but a lot …
Aha. I forgot about those.
So, Albair has a book called "Al-moufeed fi taqs al-tamgeed" ("The beneficial [things] in the rite of the glorification"). I think, after doing the hymns of St. Mina's feast, being a mina, I ended up adding a lot more hymn…