I think I've replied to everyone who's asked for the fraction, but it was a little hard to keep track (I didn't expect to receive so many PMs lol).
If you haven't received an email from me, please send me another PM.
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Although, in the recess of my mind it may have been two times prior.
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By Holy Synod or local? What were the other times the Holy Synod declared fasts?
[quote author=imikhail link=topic=12448.msg145869#msg145869 date=1318254992]
The Holy Synod is asking all Copts around the world to dedicate the next three days to fasting starting tomorrow
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Why did HH ask us to fast this time as opposed to…
Yay! I get to practice my Arabic! ;D
I found a link (http://st-takla.org/Lyrics-Spiritual-Songs/05-Coptic-Taraneem-Kalemat_Sein-Shein-Saad-Daad-Tah-Zah/Samehny-Ya-Saiedy.html) with the Arabic text, so lemme try...
Refrain:
Sama7ny, sama7ny, sama7…
I wouldn't say it's the "best Tasbeha" but Abu Fam is a choir with music: http://tasbeha.org/mp3/Praises/Midnight_Praises/Elshahid_Abu_Fam,_Coptic_Midnight_Praises.html
The best Tasbehas don't have any music ;)
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[quote author=Unworthy1 link=topic=12434.msg145758#msg145758 date=1317944538]
It should be in here somewhere. The tracks aren't titled so it might take some time.
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Hey! I’m wearing a Coptic shirt now!! ;D
On the front it has an outline of a Coptic Cross with “100% Coptic” written in it. The back of a shirt looks like a food label (a chef made it as a gift for the kids in church):
100% Coptic
Servant S…
Mina,
I can't agree that Coptic isn't part of Orthodoxy, because that is exactly what it is: part of Orthodoxy. I don't understand why our language and heritage can't be apart of our faith?
You, of all people, know the significance of Coptic in t…
I don't have much time to post, but, Ophadece, you can't possibly disagree with Mina's point that Salvation > our Coptic heritage?
I feel there is a misunderstanding here.
In HH's book, Comparative Theology, it states that the saints remind our Lord of His saints so that His compassionate and merciful heart would be moved immediately upon hearing their names and remembering His promises to them. "But the Lord was grac…