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  • http://tasbeha.org/mp3/Hymns/Instructional_Liturgies.html
  • @ophadece...lol. those questions still refer to a specific standard that you must judge by. @Daniel_Kyrillos...to answer your question, yes, this is the same Osio that we have in the library, being labeled 'Lost' In General, don't expect the Synod t…
  • So here is a problem i have with using the word 'authentic'....what is your standard to call something authentic or unauthentic? 
  • I am not sure if I can blame this phenomenon on Protestant denominations. In Egypt, many big church brought pews to keep order in church considering the increase in numbers of the believers with the year of St. Habib Girgis and those years of rebirt…
  • Well i know there is a recording for someone from Tanta for Osio, but its modern. Abouna Abraam El-Abnoubi, the monk saying the saying mentioned, is a great cantor who has access to a lot of hymns and sources from Upper Egypt. He is one of the peopl…
  • I don't know why would we care. 2%...20%...what's of numbers of Christians by name if their hearts with God and are true Christians?!
  • https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/6212/max-michel-youtube
  • I guess we are one of those "Old Calenderists"...or atleast our liturgical calendar is. For as much as we would like adapt, and consider the current more precise calendar, it's not that easy to change. We are a church of action...so all those centur…
  • To generally answer question, we are not against Ecumenism ... we are simply not willing to just unite for the sake of doing so, without considering the differences in faith. Between us and the Eastern Orthodox, through theological dialogue, we have…
  • @Joshuaa, that's not the correct interpretation of that verse: Matthew 16:16-18-NKJV16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh an…
  • Bright Saturday Matins Psalm: http://tasbeha.org/hymn_library/view/951Panouti Panouti can have the whole psalm or different parts of many psalms. Psalm 22 happens to have a lot of the visual aspects of the Crucification.
  • that is true. There isn't really a recording for it because it's based on a written teaching rather than a recording. 
  • @Remnkemi...i donno why am i not surprised of anything you just said??!!! Actually, when i was putting an english agpeya together, i found that the text of the Midnight Intro in arabic is a bit diff from psalmodies, while the english i was using as …
  • Keda e7na bendakhal kol el-selook fe ba3d..... There is NO ONE COPTIC BIBLE. There isn't a book printed that called the coptic bible in our hands these days. what we have are different books published by some older western scholars from manuscripts …
  • From what I remember about the first hood, mainly because I looked into it for bright Saturday, part of the last paragraph is not in the original texy--it's a repetition from the first paragraph. For the second hoos, it's just the psalm. And the o…
  • @ohadece...yes i made that comment, but i have also supported having Daniel in there as it is mentioned in some books and recorded by most oral sources.  Also, the we discussed the text of of the first and second hoos before and it was clear that th…
  • Hehe. This is a bit funny. But in general, it's the last verse of each part. 
  • The recent interpretation that i have heard recently, but i haven't followed up on its source, is that, this was not a statement that Christ was saying, rather He was reciting psalm 21 LXX (22) which starts with: "My God, My God, why have You forsak…
  • I think that problem is in most parishes these days...Specially with smaller churches that are starting up. You have one or two deacons that are good, so they are mostly leading, probably with every good intention. But then those two deacons are giv…
  • Vespers refers only to a specific time in the day. Our liturgical day follows the Jewish tradition in which you have 12 night hours and 12 day hours in the day. So in the Agpeya, whenever it says the 3rd hour, we really mean 9 am (6 hours diff). Mat…
  • aha...didn't see the second part.
  • Thanks Ophadece... I don't see any of these speaking about "the deacon swinging the shoria like abouna". Also, i have a problem with not referencing the Synod session in more of the shoria-related rules. Sadly to say, many deacons just take comments…
  • I haven't heard of a specific rule against it, but i would like to see one if you know which session in what year it was. 
  • In Jerusalem, the coptic rite is just a bite different then our usual one. So i am not surprised from what you just mentioned. 
  • There isn't a specific amount of charcoal to put in the shoria but it just needs to be well lit every time it's presented to abouna. Some incense put of the coal after one use--like after one time abouna puts incense in the shoria. So you may have t…
  • Oh, i forgot to mention, we would never accept infallibility of the Roman Pope or St Peter Primacy :-)
  • I don't think a union will ever happen considering the many differences between the two churches. You have to remember that we are not even fully united with the Easter Orthodox Churches of which the Catholic Church separate in the 11th century. The…
  • HGBY words were not private, and he said them to everyone who was there...so it was akh Polycarpus....i think it was a 3 years ago. He was specifically saying that life in the monastery, atleast the life we see monks live, in essence is not too diff…
  • It's back up :-)