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What I do is whenever I'm copying and pasting from something I use one of the other websites (like a website that asks me to comment or to contact them using the form they have, or a Notepad-like program in the computer, or oc.net can be used as wel…
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It would probably say "noute" or "efnoute" on it, not "Allah"
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Hey brother...I was going to comment on your editing of posts (as it was painful to read as much as it was painful for you to have posted them), but it seems like you're starting to get the hang of it in your latests posts ;)
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the most unloved state of the US (even ecclesiologically) :P
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No matter what Scotland votes, their voter turnout was impressive and exemplary!
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Perhaps the misunderstanding comes from how you define it. I used the term in the context of race, not religion. Just as some Christians were called "Jewish Christians" at that time.
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What's Jewish today was not Jewish then. I'm being quite accurate when I say we have liturgies rooted from Jewish liturgical practices of the Apostles. For example, the Ethiopian rite is essentially a Coptic liturgy that evolved on its own. It's …
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Rem, I already explained the Church in Pentapolis. The canon gives the jurisdiction to Alexandria. That DOES NOT MEAN it was called the Church of Alexandria in Pentapolis, but it means that the episcopal replacement or disciplining of a bishop fal…
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Ophadeece, Yes, they were Jewish liturgies...they did not come up with Coptic, Latin, Syriac, Byzantine rites overnight. What do you think a "Jewish liturgy" is?
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Looking forward to it Rem! :)
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Well, they already have a Coptic bishop for Scotland, if I'm not mistaken, HG Bishop Antony. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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@ophadeece, I don't understand your objection to my referencing of "Jewish Liturgy". Practically every Liturgical rite takes its ancestral root in Jewish liturgical practices. The way we gather, the "Lord have mercies", the "Lord of Sabaoth" hymn,…
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The Church St. Frumentius lead was never called the Church of Alexandria in Ethiopia. It was always called the Church of Ethiopia (it was never called "Alexandria). Calling it Coptic was only a much much much later appellation. Case in point: Th…
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How will the Scotland vote effect the British Orthodox Church? As far as I understand, they only have one parish in Scotland, as far as I am aware.
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Dear Rem, I'm not sure "I misunderstood you", but your post completely misses my point and seems to misunderstand me as well. So, it seems like we are both missing something in each other's posts that I do not know what exactly, but I thought my pr…
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For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrogance, although He might have done so, but in a lo…
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@qawe I am not all too familiar on an in depth study of the Church fathers and musical instruments, but someone shared with me this research paper long ago to me that seems to show that sole vocals was superior in form to musical instruments liturgi…
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Arab Christians before Islam were usually very good at speaking either Greek or Aramaic (the latter being very easy, because it is considered a mother language to Arabic). In fact, there has been a manuscript that shows how close early sixth centur…
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I contemplated on the non-use of contemporary music. I think it stems from a need to give a certain music that stands out from the behavior of the society, just as a Christian is supposed to stand out in a society. I don't think Coptic music was u…
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I used google docs to post something huge once without taking too many posts. I like it, it's nice. I think it's quite unfair to say that because certain people do not have certain English proficiency that this would be a deterring of using English…
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Great Britain is a good example of missions done wrong. The British Orthodox Church was done as a Church to convert the British. However, recently, the Coptic Orthodox Church also opened a mission for converts into the Coptic Church. The lack of …
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One of the things that I noticed, in the extreme early history of the Church, St. Clement of Rome, leaves us a hint of the type of ecclesiology they practiced: The church of God which sojourns at Rome, to the church of God sojourning at Corinth, to …
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Content with the provision which God had made for you, and carefully attending to His words, you were inwardly filled with His doctrine, and His sufferings were before your eyes. Thus a profound and abundant peace was given to you all, and you had a…
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Granted, I have no calibre. I simply read and share what I read. But I purposely made the reference to show a correlation. Yes, to speak in tongues means to speak miraculously to someone of another language who does not understand you. In fact, St.…
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St. Basil's liturgy, St. Cyril's liturgy, St. Gregory's liturgy, the midnight Tasbeha, the vespers, the morning prayers, the agpeya are all translated in English. There's no need to Copticize converts when they have all these beautiful hymns and pr…
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For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any …
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Dear ophadeece, You asked the question if the Greeks do English and the Ukrainians do English, and the Copts do English, what's the difference? Why don't we all unite? If you ask me, assuming that Greeks and Ukrainians and Copts are One Holy Cathol…
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What is the Church is Covina? St. Paul's? I do not believe that is Protestant-influenced. They're simply all-English translated from Coptic prayers. I have not witnessed any use of Evangelical hymns when I visited that parish, and I applaud them…
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I think the crucial question one has to ask is, which came first: The Church or the Bible? Protestants are no "Church". It is why it is so fragmented. One person will disagree with another how the Bible is interpreted. St. Peter teaches us, "the…
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That video could very well possibly be a "monk" of the Wadi Rayan group, and not the Abu Maqar one that was lead by Fr. Matta al Maskeen (now by His Grace Bishop Epiphanius), now that I was watching the video again. Not sure about the Church. It s…