I agree with you completely and everything you said crossed my mind, but i think that in the end we as christians all we can do is vote for the closest to our values. the thing is (and i think it is well known) that once the person becomes president…
I must say my favorite Sts. start with the Lady of us all the Holy Virgin Mary, the Great Martyr St. George the prince of martyrs and of course Abosefein, and the Great St. that Iqbal wrote about who i wish i could have met, The great HH Pope Kyroll…
lol, you got my vote, but really i don't think any of the candidates for the 08 election are that great, if i do decide to vote, i will vote for Guilliani because he has the closest thing to our beliefs(not that close but closer than the others for …
Actually in my church we say it the way Fr. Mattias records it, i think it is just the way the mo'alem of the church learned it based on where they are from.
I believe it is called 7&4 because it consists of the 7 theotokias and the 4 Hoos' with their medeehas in between. That is just what i've heard. i don't know about its origin though
Κηφᾶς, thank you for sharing your experience with us and i'm sure all lot of us get that way when we want to prove something, You have made a great contribution to the site with the knowledge you posses and sometimes it is (i feel at least to be a l…
Kirmich is correct in the original rites of the church the deacon was supposed to make the Qorban, but lately its not that people are trying to ignore it, it has become more difficult for the deacons to do it because they don't necessarily have time…
[coptic]Cenou;iou[/coptic] is not shenouda, [coptic]Senou][/coptic] is Shenouda, in fact i don't even think that is a real word in coptic so either there is two names that have the same meaning or else you Khedmit el shamas is wrong
here is the list from Wikipedia, although i don't know how relieable it is, Pope Shenoda I is 55 on the list and Pope Shenouda II is 65 and obviously HH Pope Shenouda III is 117
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coptic_Popes
Orthodox11 is correct, changing the P to a b is an arabic thing because there is no p in the arabic language. Whether it was originally pronounced P or B really doesn't make a difference, because 1st of all there is no proof to how they said it, and…
Well, for sure the tune we use is a Coptic tune as Orthodox11 said, and i agree with him that the tune we used must have evolved over time to what it is now because even from the early 1900's some of the things we say have sort of become arabicized …
Ophadece,
when someone commits a sin no matter what it is in God's eyes it is a seperation from him as you said, but you cannot compare cursing to committing adultery or murdering someone, that is why when you confess certain sins abouna will posibb…
Well, i think what he is possibly saying is that all sins lead to death but if you see that your friend or whatever is repenting then pray for him that he may be forgiven, and if you see a friend that is not repenting stay away from him that you may…
I agree with you there are different degrees to sin to a certain extent. God will not judge some one who curses the same as someone who murdered or committed adultery, and yes the he was talking about homosexuality being the unnatural thing. and i t…