Abouna Metias of the Church of Ethiopia should now be added but i heaven't sent a book that is printed recent enough to have it. I am not sure about the Patriarchs of the Armenian church
lol. It was with the seraphim chorus, atleast 4-5 years ago. we're all alhan crazy so the modo of the retreat was, someone is always singing something.....or listening to something. it was fun.
lol. Do you know that i went to a retreat with someone COULD NOT sleep without listening to a liturgy on his laptop...And it was weird listening to a liturgy of Abouna Boutros El-gabalawy in the middle of the night through the whole build, coming ou…
habibiy, nothing is easy to get these days and nothing will be presented to you on a silver platter. If all services are easy, then God wouldn't require us to serve. ATLEAST you have text and you can read it out. start typing and be the first to pla…
I am not sure what the text on the text library is, but someone who doesn't know arabic that well can make this mistake, specially when the word is rarely used in arabic anymore.- ختن = khatan = bridegroom.- ختان = khetan - circumcision.
@coptsabroad...you need to take it easy a little. You are being defensive without being, in any way, constructive to help your argument. It also sounds that you have some 'inside information' that no one else has...yey--doesn't every egyptian out th…
A full deacon, a person who is consecrated to give the blood is one that is does nothing else other than serve in Church. He also cannot get married again. Our Church cannot force people to serve in any way.
Full deacons should be ones that are consecrated for service. If they go to a seminary, than that's a plus for their salvation and their service. Also, deacons cannot choose to be deacons but they can refuse when they are chosen. This is actually li…
@RamezM The major change that the psalm of liturgy was changed to be fully singary rather than 2 parts singary and 2 annual as Nahdet elkanayes says. I myself haven't paid much attention to it because in church we didn't really stray from the Nahdet…
Thursday is a Minor feast. But it's not a stand-alone. We have spoke to Anba Beniameen of El-Monofia a while ago about this and he clarified that there must always be a transition point from the sorrowful rite (one extent) to the festive tune (anoth…
@Remnkemi...I don't totally agree. That specific tarh is only for that evening liturgy and then there are a commentary for every week that is to be said. now for the whole special psalmody, with the psalies, commentaries and the hoos, I strongly dis…
What is with all these changes towards Thursday hymns being festive. That days rite has always been annual due to the fact that it is in the middle of Holy Week. I can understand and agree with the logic. Khidmit shamas books mostly say that. HICS r…
@drewhalim....i don't know if i spoke to you about this before or not. but Palm sunday commentary has an adam and watos. the current book everyone uses, Epsaliat wa Turuhat, 1 or 2 edition, does not have coptic text for the adam but i have found it …
well adam and watos text is different. i believe watos always has more syllables. it doesn't make sense to use the same tune accept if you are saying the SAME tarh through all those days. so if the tarh is an adam one, the adam tune would always wor…
I would say the annual watos one until someone replies with someone info....i am not really a search and i never do enough research to conclude that 'there exists no watos tune'
Let me clarify some things...first, the 2 recordings are of the SAME tune, one is m Tawfik and the other is M Faheem. I wouldn't be surprised if M Fahim learned it from m Tawfik.
So the different tunes of commentaries and the difnar, since it always…
You are right. That specific comment didn't have any info. But let's put it this way. masturbation is a sexual act. Any sexual act uses your body and mind in the wrong way, meaning outside the regular action of intercourse int he correct way (within…
hatoor is not excluded, if cast, this coptic year it came on a sunday, i think. Just link the celebration with saying akee or aktonk in selected hymns. from kiahk to easter, we never say Aktonk.
1- we are not sure yet.
2-the main Discussion page is similar to the list of unread discussion. When you logged on the forum for the first time, all discussions were considered NEW so your list is probably still full. you can hit the Mark All Viewed…
I don't know what "the changes that are coming to the Coptic church in America"?????? We are Coptic Orthodox and we'll always be this way...no matter how many youth THINK they can create a major "change" in Church.
Wow. This is the first time I hear of this being done.
And what I think of it?! I don't like it. There is no reason for us to change the rite and replace the church reading of the day, and there is no reason to even think that the Church katameros n…
In vespers praise, there is only the one commentary after the entire Watos lobsh, and there are 4, one for each week. This are already in the current book.
As for midnight praise for saturday, Friday night into saturday, truth be told, i have everyt…