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this is right. i add that we should check ourselves every day or every week and ask ourselves honestly, if our friends are influencing us or if we are influencing them. so i believe it is right to hang out with people who behave in sinful ways, but …
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try here: http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/pope/#books and scroll down to 'comparative theology' for a start. i have not read all of our dear departed pope's books ( :o ) but have read several of them and found them easy to understand and giving…
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first, ioannes, i am still praying for u. may God have mercy and give u patience to endure these difficult trials. about baba kyrillos, is he not canonised? does that mean we should not have his relics and mention him in the commemoration of the sa…
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r u allowed to fill it with 'blah blah'? eg. i saw miss x on (date) and she presented with y symptoms. examination revealed z. the differential diagnosis includes (a, b, c, d, e, and f). further investigations were done.... we could have done other …
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great post! also try: 'i'm not going to post anything else on tasbeha.org until i pray and read the Bible' ;)
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ok, now i am eagerly waiting to find out which it was! i am away with no coptic churches near by, so i celebrated pascha last night at the catholic church opposite and then palm sunday at the eastern orthodox church down the road today. (in case u r…
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we pray God will bless him, heal him and give him and all the family joy and peace this Pascha / feast of resurrection.
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i am sure they are all good, just i only listened to one recently! :o
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so can someone pls fix the tasbeha.org synaxarium? :)
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u r preaching faster than i can listen! the last one was good though. :)
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it's probably nothing major, so don't freak out! i used to get chest pains from irritation of my rib cage, mainly due bad posture, which in turn was due to stress, which was due to not accepting the daily stresses of life. so keep up work on yr spir…
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may God give u peace. it is not any easy journey, but it is a beautiful one, and the difficulties along the way will only make u stronger if u stay close to God and drive out of your heart all bitterness and frustration (maybe u don't have any - i a…
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this is not something i have seen. maybe younger kids do a bit of weaving when they get distracted, but generally i have not noticed much palm weaving going on on palm sunday. usually there is a big get together in the church centre after lazarus sa…
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seek first the kingdom of God, then all these things (food, clothes) will be given to you as well. if u really know the danger of fame or money, u will run from it. a person who has a high spiritual level will not assume he is strong enough to resis…
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there are people in church history who made big mistakes before they were Christians and then became monks and sometimes priests. to be a priest the following has to happen: u have to be male. u have to be an orthodox Christian. if u are going to ge…
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i wanted to die when an old lady in my parents' church told me (as a small child) 'school days are the happiest days of your life'. the poor old lady had no idea what bullying i was experiencing and how i was just waiting for the great day when i gr…
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the best source i have seen is 'the story of the copts' by iris habib al masri, published by the middle east council of churches in 1978. u may find one in yr church library or the library of an old person in yr church (if it is out of print). i don…
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yes, it's not that unusual to change in teenage years or early adulthood, coz u no longer are dependent on yr parents and might start to think a bit differently to them. maybe start by telling him u are grown up now and would like to do some things …
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u seem to be generally worried about many things. God will guide you. seek first the kingdom of God and then these other things will be given to you as well. God has a plan for you, He does not expect from you more than you can give. He just asks th…
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we know that gnostics were not true Christians, so we are bit confused about the images you use and we don't have a good response. this is a good resource for information about Jesus Christ: http://st-takla.org/JESUS-index.html
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dear mikeforJesus, if u are unsure or uncertain about how to serve God, it is best to speak to a mature, sensible Christian who knows you, for example your confession father, to ask him what to so next. we do not know you, so we can't tell you what …
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that's great. if there is any way u can get there for easter liturgy (Pascha), don't miss it. is should start somewhere around 9pm on night of 14th. if u miss it, u have to wait another year to celebrate it! maybe the church even has rooms for peop…
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amoussa01 thanks for yr quote. it is good to quote church teaching :) mikeforJesus are u upset about something? pls talk to a friend or priest or send a personal message.
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may God help u in yr study. try praying from the agpeya, great at putting things in perspective. www.agpeya.org doesn't give headaches like caffeine / red bull ;)
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good points, but to go as far as saying any saints 'save' us is going further than the church hymns and church tradition. we say in the midnight praises 'all joy befits you, oh mother of God, for through your Son salvation came to the world'. we don…
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ok, these are the oversimplifications of the differences between what yr church believes (from the website i found on the net) and what we (orthodox Christians) believe: we believe roughly the same on the trinity, Jesus' divine and human natures and…
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i agree that too much counseling is not good. but sometimes people can have a specific problem, like autism or asperger's syndrome or schizophrenia that gives them problems socialising. so i think if someone has problems socialising he /she should s…
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these are some good suggestions. do these and remember how much God loves u. reach out to those who need yr help also, they may be feeling worse than u are. may God guide u and give u His peace. :)
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abouna matta el meskin (matthew the poor) wrote some beautiful things that have helped me get closer to God. baba shenouda wrote some beautiful things that have helped me get closer to God. they are both now interceding for us before the throne of G…
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it's probably in ethiopia. they won't let u check it out, even for huge sums of money or threats of genocide. so best forget about it till u get to heaven, then u can ask God. (if u r not too distracted by falling down in worship and seeing all the…