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My brother "The_worst", True repentance is to sum it up reversing your tracks (ie. doing a 180). True repentance is where you feel remorse that you have upset the Perfect God who has not ceased to care for you nor to love you with his limitless lov…
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Thanks jydeacon, That was my train of thought too, because nothing HE writes in the document is directly against the Orthodox concept of theosis. The only thing that puts doubt in my mind is HE's comments about the deification of man being a differ…
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Pharoah 714, I think I found it The Apostolic Constitutions say: And concerning baptism thus baptize ye: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit in living water (running wat…
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Here is the link to the book in arabic: http://www.calloflove.net/copticlibrary/download/pope/101.pdf I can't read arabic though so I wan't be able to do it, but hopefully someone will.
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Her full life story is here: http://www.stmaryofegypt.org/life.aspx The link Cyril97 provided is basically a summary of this.
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Thanks Fr. Peter, you've answered everything and more.
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Thank you Father Peter. :) I have one last quick question. Do we believe that Christ has 1 unified will (i.e. what would be the term: mia or mono?).
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Thanks for the explanation of St. Timothy's quote. It was a great relief to find out that St. Timothy wasn't speaking out against St. Cyril. I've also edited out the link in my other post. I've noticed that a lot of what is written about the counc…
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Ioannes, it is great to "see" you again. I was just about to start a thread asking where you were. I find that it is often easier to give advice then to act upon it when you get into that situation. I find that things seem more complicated if I'm i…
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There are many Coptic sermons in English. For example orthodoxsermons.org has many. Furthermore CYC shows HH Pope Shenouda's Wednesday meetings with English captions (knowing how slow the translation process is, those must take more than 8 hours to …
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Thanks ilovesaintmark for the great explanation, but I thought that all of the 12 were married with the exception of St. John the Evangelist. This explains the quote found in HH Pope Shenouda's biography saying: "nobody recognized Him except John, …
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In regards to the Holy Spirit and Christ, the Logos always existing, I have read several things on this. In the book the Nature of Christ by Pope Shenouda he describes that although the word Logos means Word, it also means Logic or Wisdom. This me…
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Thank you ilovesaintmark for your kind and loving posts, I think what I meant was first in honor and not in what they decide (for lack of a better wording), i.e. their decision is equal to everyone else's, but they're just higher in honor. I think …
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ilovesaintmark, Could you expand on that. Do you have any Patristics or anything from todays Bishops on it? Also why would it not be right to say this (i.e. what dangers does it have). Sorry for all the questions, but thanks in advance for any res…
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On Matthew 16:19 this is what St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom said: He did not tell him ‘you are a rock’ ‘tu es Petra’, but he rather said ‘tu es Petrus’ for the rock was Christ (1 Cor 10:4). This is it which Simon confessed, just as the enti…
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Here is a link to many of the ancient christian commentary books (They're previews only so you can't read the whole thing): http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=ancient+christian+commentary#q=ancient+christian+commentary&hl=…
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Here is a commentary of St. Cyril on the Gospel of Luke: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/cyril_on_luke_01_sermons_01_11.htm Here is a commentary of St. Cyril on the Gospel of John: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files…
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Forgive me, but I think you misinterpreted what Fr. Peter was trying to say. By speaking about the intrusion of the thought of Original Sin and the Immaculate Conception, Fr. Peter wasn't talking about the intrusion of these into our official dogm…
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Forgive me Fr. Peter, but weren't the Archbishops of Constantinople and Jerusalem also called Patriarchs. Please pray for me
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This is a quote from the article copticuser20 posted, about the statement of the document: The document said Orthodox churches were indeed “churches” because they have apostolic succession and that they enjoyed “many elements of sanctification and …
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I think it would help if you made a schedule for yourself, thats flexible but also helps you keep your time wisely. I tried doing this and it was very nice when I stuck to it. You could for example learn hymns for an hour, read for half an hour, wat…
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The Orthodox Study Bible is great, is translated from the Septuagaint and has the Deuterocanon (the books Protestants exclude). It is also translated by the Orthodox Church. You can read the Deuterocanon here at the bottom of the page: http://st-ta…
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Hey Amoussa, St. Mark couldn't have been one of the twelve because the Bible tells the names of all twelve. Their names are: St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. Simon the Zealot, St. James the Less, St. James the Greater, St. John, St. Bartholomew, St. Tha…
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John_S2000, St. Paul was an Apostle as shown in many of his epistles where he wrote of himself "called to be an Apostle", and Holy Tradition tells us that he was martyred by the hands of Nero (SYnaxarium Link here). Edit Sorry i just realised that…
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Hi Zoxasi, A great book to read would be the Incarnation of the Word by St. Athanasius. We have the Epub up on orthodoxebooks so you can download it to your iphone/ipod. It's a big read and I've yet to read it, but it is one of the greatest writing…
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Just wanted to clarify my earlier post. By creation, I meant the creation of creatures. So, God no longer creates for example Lizards, but he created them and then gave them the ability to reproduce. I in no way meant the recreation of our mind and…
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Hello Biss, Pope Shenouda was asked by someone if he should help someone to cheat on a test, because of the very verse you mentioned. His response was that you can't take one verse and leave the other. He told him that in no way can he do this. N…
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By rest, It doesn't mean that he needed to rest but rather that he stopped creating. This doesn't mean that he got tired. Furthermore, some explanations say that we live in the seventh day and each day was rather a period of time ( The Hebrew wor…