well they were infront of me
and one of them is friends w/ my friend thas how i know its a fact
now i was tinkin of going up to talk to her........but i mean what would i say?
dont be muslim, leave ur bf??? i mean as Dobuting Thomas said........the…
my moms cousin is a priest here in egypt
and his son was literally launcehd about 30 meters (90 feet) when he was crossin the streets by a speeding car
and was left for dead......he was robbed for everything he had including his wedding band
and he …
one word.........salvation
without hte Cross, and Jesus's Death in general,we would still be inteh grip of hades
and we'd automratically be condemned to hades after death, but through the Cross and Jesus descending into Hades to open the gates of H…
Try goin to the Popes page
www.copticpope.org
and looking through the book selection he has..........he has published a couple of books regarding Baptisim
I kinda agree with Αριψαλιν
because no matter how many boycotts there will be a number of people in this world who would die to see that movie
in the Old Testament we see that God told his people to ignore the "false propehts and priests" not to go…
Well Abouna serves as your Guide into accepting Christianity
so he also has to go through your process by monitoring your progress
so that a decision maybe taken when you are read to accept Christ.
as i posted accdientally in another thread
i dont think psyc is the answer...personally i dont value it much to a point hta i dont bleive in some of it
the one course that i'd think would really help the priests would not be that but it would be
so…
im guesssin u live in the US lol
well my 2 cents would be to not blast the taraneem lol
i mean the point of taraneem is to bring someone closer too God not to use as sometype of music and blast it
these people as wrong as tehy are dont want to li…
I'd say the book of Proverbs if were talkin OT like i cant think of one person who doesnt enjoy reading that book NT wise.......id read the book of St Mark........
it's a very simple that heavily focouses on Jesus Himself
its main goal was to reac…
I kinda side with Ophedace on this one....
Personally speaking im not the biggest technology fan (yes ikno im sorta close minded)
I think the projectors are great for tasbeha, taraneem, displaying taraneem lyrics during the nayrooz feast etc.
but d…
Homecomming as prom are two very social events these two events fit in to the "American Mentality" where it is ok
to be invovled in serious relationships, go out, and be intimate.
Culturaly speaking as egyptians:
we dont acknowledge tehse types o…
Well we basically all, believe that the bread and wine are transformed into the real Body and Blood of Christ. I remember once hearing form my aunt a story about a priest who started to doubt whether anything happend on the altar or not. The next…
It's not that we cant celebrate Mass more than once on Sundays...
its taht we cant celebrate Mass more than once on the Altar.
i.e.
If the Church has three altars, three Masses can be celebrated,buty no more htan one per Altar.
The thing is he knows like what im gonna say lol
like the whole emotional worhship thing.....i explained that to him.....i told him we should be at peace w/ God when we worship not being all hyper etc. and he acknowledged that he says i kno its not…
And its something true
Nestour's Hill as its called is located in Akhmim, Sohag
the reason he's burried there is because after beign exiled, the early fathers had to choose the city with the strongest faith so that it will not be shaken by this here…
A Church Servant once explained to me how we got were we are nowadays:
Orignally in 451 their was the Great Schism at Chanceldon whcih split the Oriental Churches from the Western Churches (the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches…
It's Actually from a very reliable source
The Paradise of the Holy Fathers "Bostan El Rohban"
in the story of hte Blessed Man Eulugious who ministered to Arian the Leper
ya im pretty sure its not true because the Chruch was United when both Nestour and Arius were excommunicated.
The Council of Nicea to excommunicate Arius took place in 325 AD
The Council of Ephesus to excommunicated Nestour took place in 431 AD
Th…
Tension culminated in the forced, albeit illegal, expulsion of Alexandrian Jews in 414 and the murder of Hypatia, the most prominent Alexandrian pagan, by a fanatical mob of Christians in 415. The departure soon afterward of many scholars marked th…
I remember once my 7th grade Sunday School Teacher saying how sometimes science cna run parrallel to religon
i.e.
God said Let their Be Light and out of sheer darnkness erupted light
and
A huge bang errupting creating light
So the "bang" could ha…
Well in one of his many books, HH says that there are 4 levels in Heaven. I can only recall three of them though:
The Sky and the Stars, Paradise , and Heaven itself
No one has seen the Actual Heaven, the stories we here about Saints dissappearin…
ya i heard the same thing and unfortunatley i didnt get any results researching it either
from what i understood was taht Hypatia was a pagan and St. Cyril was in some sort of conflict w/ her
Possibly a "control issue" b/w the Church and the Pagans…