St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church of Chicago Kiahk Praises with Fr. Youhanna, Priest from the Coptic Cathedral. It is not completely English but there are a lot of parts that are.
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Many of the articles in the Coptic Encyclopedia are written by non-Coptic writers and portray an evidently anti-Coptic perspective.
The fact is there is no "end-all" book on Cop…
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Can you please clarify this point? What do you mean there were "two natures" before the union? B…
Just answer them saying that God never made anything perfect. God is the only perfect being and nobody else can match his perfection. Some diseases cannot be fixed once they are reached and if they are fixed then they are definitely the lucky minori…
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2) Baptized in the Coptic Church or any Orthodox Church
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Armenians are not Copts, Syria…
I said that St. Mark was a Copt[quote author=Orthodox11 link=topic=5768.msg77254#msg77254 date=1190293294]
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He founded the Church of Copts, therefore, he is considered a Cop…
Yeah, thanks Orthodox11 for refreshing my memory. Though the Eastern Orthodox Church did not separate from the Catholics until way after us. Also, why would we believe in all of the Councils if one of them exiled our Church? That is completely hypoc…
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Aren't the GOC and the COC essentially the same? It's even to the point where Copts can mary Greeks without baptism and it can even take place once, instead of once in each chu…
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Well St Mark was the founder of our Church so he would have to be at the top.
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St. Mark the …
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Hey everyone, I wanted to get the Coptic Church's view on evolution. When I say evolution, I don't mean that theory that we evolved from ape like creatures....I am just curio…
Now everywhere from the Feast of the Nativity from Ibrahim Ayad until the Ascension Hymns by Cantor Gad Lewis are either lost or deleted. If anybody has had their podcast for that long, then I will tell you how to find the podcast with Windows Explo…
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Thanks guys for your posts, much appreciated.
Just with respect to these 3 books, 1 Esdras and 3 & 4 Maccabees, does the church advise against us reading them?
which bring…
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I also heard that he wished for that church that he prayed in to be built. He prayed that he would die during a liturgy. And actually i heard that he died normally and whil…
QT_PA_2T,
The number 7 is everywhere in the Bible and is pretty much the whole basis of the Bible, in my opinion. We'll just need to wait until the Revelations are revealed to us on the Day of Judgement. I am sorry that I really couldn't help.
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I think that he told God the date he wished to die on as well as the want for him to die in the lit…
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might i add he knew
the exact date of his departure
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I am not exactly sure who that priest is, but he was a contemporary saint.
He was taken to heaven during his lifetime and received two wishes from God.
He wished to die during the Divine Liturgy.
Also, he wished a couple other things and received th…
Also, because of terrorism and people not knowing the truth about Arabs, they assume that when you say that you are from Egypt, that you are a terrorist and that you are Islamic. If you show them the cross, then they will learn of the true religion …
Wow, what an interesting ceremony. I have never seen one quite like it. What did they do to the relics? Did they empty it in the silver bowl and that's it?
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I would just like to mention that podcasts are still not working, and the error that comes up says that it needs authorization to acess media or something of that sort. so if …
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I heard Anba Rafa'el answering a question on this "Sarkis issue", whether we should not say his name and replace it by our own. Bottom line is that we need to respect his wish…