If your parents have a united will with God, then He speaks through them.
If you have a united will with God, you will listen to Him.
His Will is for one to be good, and to be happy.
The Eastern Orthodox and their interpretation for things is different from the COC and its practice.
The Armenians have their traditions and the COC has its own traditions and practice.
Incense is a sacrifice. Priests are the only ones to offer sacrifice.
Strangely, Coptic deacons can cense in Jerusalem, but in no other jurisdiction of the Coptic Orthodox Church. They lead the way in processions and before a bishop, but they ca…
Just superficially looking and listening to the words as they were scripted on the page, several points come to mind:
1. inequity of parties;
2. movement to establish superiority;
3. trying to explain things away as just people.
The Latin Church i…
REM,
The Very Rev. Fr. Antonious Ragheb, of Blessed Memory, 1st priest ordained by Pope Shenouda (ever). Yes, he served in Egypt for a while. He had a duel tenure at St. George & St. Shenouda in Jersey City, NJ (aka, "Bergen"). His first ten…
Common guys, get a reality check, and stop eating too much fava beans before letting the fumes from such overtake your sensibility and sense of history. [that's a joke, not meant to be mean--in case anyone takes it otherwise]
Not to mention that the reposed and blessed, The Very Rev. Fr. and Dr. Gabriel Abdelsayed was ordained as the first permanent priest for service in the first Coptic Church in the United States on 5 August 1970.
This is documented in Watani newspape…
Not to mention that His Holiness, Pope Shenouda III (God grant him many years) established a committee, asked for documentation, and issued an encyclical and verbal acclamation of St. Mark in Jersey City as being "definitively the first Church in th…
St. Mark in Jersey City was registered before L.A.
The building was purchased before L.A.
The first Liturgies were before L.A.
There are letters inviting the parish of St. Mark to attend the consecration of the Armenian Cathedral of St. Vartan in NY…
Even if the "average" muslim does not believe this trash-filled video expression, they do not protest or detract from it, either by weakness or complacency, the end result is the same: the condone it (directly or indirectly).
The "Revolution" was …
I don't think this is the whole issue, nor would I be asking for more detail.
Listen to your mother--always. If this chick is right for you, God will open the opportunity. Otherwise, you are better off.