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  • https://www.amazon.co.uk/Agpeya-Mark-Coptic-Orthodox-Church-ebook/dp/B075DBY2ZL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=agpeya&qid=1587652813&sr=8-1
  • ....lol mabsoota....you are truly "mabsoota" all the time. I don't think we would go too far to make the changes that you want, except when other do agree. I mean, if a group sit together, get the coptic text, and agree on a translation based on cer…
  • Almost everyone uses that one because there is one version that also have parallel arabic and english. At St. Mark's jersey city NJ we used to use the Montreal yellew agpeya, until they stopped printing it, so we made our own:https://www.amazon.com/…
  • https://www.amazon.com/Agpeya-Mark-Coptic-Orthodox-Church/dp/154484770X
  • Other than the communal liturgical services, all of them that should be prayed in the church, each have their own canon with the guidance their Abbott of the monastery or the specific father to that monk. It's not exactly written out and it's for su…
  • I don't think we need to talk about what the Old Catholic Church is or isn't in this discussion. I think the original question was answered.....lets move on...
    in Monk Comment by minatasgeel April 2020
  • Coptic Reader :-)
  • @ItalianCoptic... just a quick comment.....a "celibate marriage" is one that is contradictory since the Church can never and would never ever try to prove or disprove. This would confirm the muslim's idiotic idea that "abouna would spend the first n…
    in Monk Comment by minatasgeel April 2020
  • @Kyrillos97,- You are correct about God's justice system wouldn't be like ours. But that's the mystery, we can never fully comprehend God's characteristics. Also, 2 things:- It's not just a matter of innocent blood paying for the guilty, but it's mo…
  • @Kyrillos97... I realized also that there is the idea of "if God can't change his rules, then He's not God." That comes out of the atheistic argument of "Can God create a rock so big that He can't carry it?"...the simple answer to that is, no. Mainl…
  • @ Kyrillos97...i think you're confused about what the "rules" are. They are not the Law but the Law fulfilled the rules. The rules are based on the nature of God, and if they change, then you are changing His nature. In our context here, His nature …
  • That blog is owned by a servant from the LA Diocese named Maged who has been spreading these penal substitution protestant ideas within the church. He has been reprimanded and dealt with multiple times concerning these improper understanding of salv…
  • May 22 2010, the Synod agreed that it would be in the annual tune if it's done right after the liturgy. I know of this. But Albair says that "the fathers of the holy Synod agreed in June 2013 to restore the old rite with the sorrowful tune."
  • That is definitely a problem that we have in churches. we already have a problem with people knowing about the "Septuagint"...so many probably ignore or don't even know that there are different written sources for that one translation. 
  • ShareTheLord... You are correct about the info you said, but the book of Tobit is one that is not found in the Hebrew text, but is found in the Septuagint. So, the info don't apply here. But to answer the question, there are a couple of different v…
  • Well the main reason for that is the mystical act here is not the hearing of sins, but the absolution that comes from the priest. 
  • You can probably confess in the sense that you'd speak your sins to abouna on the phone, and then when you do come to take communion next, you'd receive the absolution from abouna.
  • coptic for "everything" in the agpeya or just certain parts?!
  • I haven't seen one in english...but it's not like you can find them in coptic. The thing is though, it's all about the psalms....so you'd just be duplicating OT text. Not the most useful in a practical way. That being said, we did publish an agpeya …
  • Forget me taking offense...i got used to Zoxsasi doing this through the years....i grew old to be ok with it. But i banned him for atleast 2 weeks to calm down. Call it an abuse of power on my side. 
  • Mashy, one more response to you and I won't accept more comments on the topic. The answer to your "dying of cancer" question is: we don't know. If the person is taking communion just to be healed, and wanting to be healed, and doesn't consider that …
  • @Zoxsasi....you're walking on eggshells right now concerning this topic. There are enough arguments online concerning this topic...you can join those. But you will not bring that here. I will say this though: - The Body and Blood of Christ is precio…
  • @ophadece, I don't disagree with you when you say "The Church's primary aim is not to be of this world"...but who said that caring for our physical life is a worldly concern?! Our bodies were created by God and we, in the person of Adam & Eve, w…
  • In the USA, it's different. Each state is responsible for itself while they work with the federal government...states with large numbers are taking serious actions. In NJ for example, all dine-in restaurants are already closed, except if they delive…
  • If we are lucky, we will just continue doing the same thing with pascha and Resurrection. Nothing changes.
  • https://stmosesbookstore.org/shop/books-and-media/church-books/the-antiphonarium-difnar/
    in Difnar Comment by minatasgeel March 2020
  • The closest you can get to such a book with that info is El-baramous Monastery Psalmody that only has Coptic and Arabic. It has tons of references, majority of them biblical. 
  • the answer is right there in the question: "feels"...it's all about feelings and emotions. Those are not facts in life. those are subjective and change from one person to the other. But the body doesn't.
  • Yes it is a sin. Gender is a fact of life. The parents of a child do not get to choose the gender, despite possible ways we may get to now. That is a God-given aspect and that is why it's a fact of life. You change that, you are then changing a fact…
  • @Zoxsasi, I will take on defending the LA diocese.  1st - The recordings referenced are not exactly there for teaching. We know that from the fact that not all hymns of the season were recorded, plus some tracks were recorded in alternating betweet …