I agree 1000% with you, we personally don't have the problems mentioned in our church(except for the issue with kids in the alter and what not) but none of us here have ever tried to have the mic, here its the quite opposite we are pushed infront of…
Here i learn from the muallem of the church and from tasbeha.org and i also like to learn from the HCOC choir recordings that have the actual lessons online. Those help a lot when i need to learn something quickly if we haven't gone over it yet.
People who aren't certain on a subject should not be posting in the first place what is the point just to confuse others as well as yourself, if all you have to say is i agree or nothing really to add(i am guilty of this) then you should not be post…
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-Alright I can see what you mean on Purgatory. Can someone tell me the Coptic beliefs in general.
- For instance
- Roman Catholic teaching on salvation- grace with …
Hello everybody, i just recieved mine this weekend and i must say its amazing. it has everything Orthodox11 has mentioned. God Bless the people who produced it. I highly suggest anyone who hasn't ordered it to order one.
Don't be so hard on yourself, it happens to a lot of people the best thing is that you realized you messed up and are willing to go back to the way things were. God see's your effort and will meet you half way, just as he did with the prodigal son, …
Well she has already taken the first step which is mostly the hardest besides staying on track. I completly know how she feels and go through this from time to time. what she has to do is PRAY. I know this is the generic answer for any problems we h…
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We as copts don't believe we enter into heaven right away after we die, we believe that thos…
The three days Jonah spent in the belly of the fish represents Christ himself. also the people of Ninevah fasted for 3 days in order for God to accept their repentance. so we do the same asking God for the forgiveness of our sins
We as copts don't believe we enter into heaven right away after we die, we believe that those worthy go to paradise and those unworthy go to hades(where all righteous and unrighteous went before christs death). You say you have yet to meet a christi…
sorry actually i don't have it, i have a recording of pimairomi in english put with the onishty tune, which doesn't make sense but thats what i have. sorry again. if you would still like it i can give it to you.
Well i don't know what the coptic catholics do but we as Coptic orthodox don't believe as you said in purgatory. and as a matter of fact there is a topic you can be directed to about it here: http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php?topic=6158…
I hope you are disagreeing with me saying them learning from seeing and not doing, because there is no reason to argue with the fact that they trulely aren't allowed in the alter by the rites of the church, not because they are kids but because they…
As ophadece said, children in general(or according to the rites of the church) are not allowed in the alter whatsoever. why? because they have not reached the level in the deaconate that allows them to. Which small correction is Deacon not epideacon…
i personally think that its a good idea to learn the language. But if you are afraid of muslim talk then you going to have a very hard time becuase it is their language not ours. Its still good to know just as another language and of course incase y…
Egypt itself is the holy land for us copts, The lord chose to come to egypt, he didn't go to anyother land while he was on earth besides that. you won't see many copts really wanting to go and visit Jerusalem
Generally for Ethve Ti just part of it is read, mainly the strongest part of the message such as, "But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" from ti epestoli. i've never heard that there is a longer version of …
He was never ordained in the first place, he's not a part of the clergy. He created his own church and made himself patriarch, the guy has kids and is married, its not that hard to get a black galabia and a cross
I must agree with Anba Bishoy, I feel that non of the candidates will be good choices and i'm still not sure if i will even vote but if i do i will probably go with Mccain as well. Not because Obama is black or that Clinton is a women but because th…
This one is about Anba Pishoy the beloved of our savior. While he would read the Bible he would come up with questions and he didn't have anyone to answer them(back them monasticism was about seclusion) so he would pray and ask God for the answers a…
I know for sure they believe in heaven or hell because if they didn't then there attacks on christians would then be in vain in their minds. if they believe in paradise or hades i don't know, but i know they believe that if they are martyred or are …