For myself, not even Coptic, I would (and do sometimes) pray in Coptic personally at home, baladoos. Of course I don't know very much, so when I do it is just a short "Hiteni" of three or four lines or something similar, but still it is something to…
Hmm. With due respect, ILSM, this is not a polite direction for this topic to go in. I am not a woman, so I can't say why women do this or that. I only hope that Agpeya heeds the advice given to her here by both men and women, priests and laypeople.
It's weird: My first sustained exposure to Coptic hymns was listening to Folkways' album "Coptic Music" (recorded by Aziz S. Atiya) about 500,000,000 times in college...so I absorbed the "th" = "s" thing, and now to me "th" sounds weird, even though…
I don't know why, but this thread just reminded me of one time in my Arabic classes when I wrote (as part of a homework assignment to use new Arabic vocabulary) "The Coptic language is the last stage of the Egyptian language." The professor wrote on…
Yeah, that sounds like a mess. I agree with everybody else: End this...whatever it is. It is of no benefit to either of you.
Focus on growing closer to God and God will provide you with a person that you won't wonder and be confused about, if it is…
[quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=11113.msg134438#msg134438 date=1301409162]
you said that the psi can't be written in arabic. but it can.[/quote]
No, I said that the "psi" is not a sound that exists in Arabic, because it isn't. You can approxim…
I can't remember who said it, but I heard it recently in a sermon: At your judgment, God will never ask you why you fell; He'll ask why you didn't get back up.
I am not sure what you are saying about "epsaleia". Can you explain it a bit more.
Regarding e, if I am following Fr. Shenouda example correctly (that it is "a" like in "at"), it should be [æ] (in IPA: near-open front rounded vowel), which I guess …
Mina, if you go back to the post of yours I was replying to it might make more sense (or maybe not; maybe I'm the one who is confused). I thought you had said that the proposed phonology of OB was the result of Fr. Shenouda mixing up Coptic pronunci…
Check the Loprieno article I reference several times in the "Teaching Coptic Language" thread, Ophadece. He gives some examples. The point is not to show that Egyptian did not have [p] (I think it did), but that orthographically in Coptic is not ne…
How do you square that idea with those found in the linguistic literature that show that shows up orthographically in Coptic where Egyptian had underlying, Ophadece? I'm not saying that it is not possible, but I guess I am in the minority view (?)…
Maybe the white guy used to be Roman Catholic, like me? Lots of RCs show up late, take communion, and leave immediately afterward even though the Mass is clearly NOT over. It used to drive me nuts, because 9 times out of 10 I would show up early. Bu…
That is patently wrong, Mina. It is not about any sort of co-mingling Arabic with Coptic (not to say that this didn't happen, but to the extent that it did it was mostly the other way around; again, see Bishai's papers on CS). There is plenty of evi…
I can relate to your situation, Ioannes. When I was still in the Roman Catholic church, I was sick of Roman Catholics (generally Euro-Americans, but that was just because I was in Oregon at the time). I think it is natural, in a way. I too was passe…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=11113.msg134344#msg134344 date=1301331041]
As for GB, it's clear that some people argue it's a pronunciation, but they don't realise that in Egypt the mere dialect which lived hardly longer than a century is being …
"The Vatican is wrong" - Coptic Church
I should think this closes the issue for all Copts. And I agree with HH Pope Shenouda III. The Bible does say that. The Vatican is just being politically correct by lying (again; just like they do when they sa…
The Catholic Church still does (sometimes) immerse babies in water. It was done at my hometown parish, though I don't know the circumstances surrounding it (I don't know if you have specifically ask for that or what). For adults in the Latin rite th…
[quote author=copt_believer link=topic=11091.msg134194#msg134194 date=1301157496]
Yea but in practice that may not always work for converts.. Imagine someone who is German and wants to become Oriental Orthodox and is baptized in the Syriac Orthodox …
Sorry, binC. I really didn't mean to start this argument in your thread. I only asked here about how to tithe because my own thread asking the same question only got 1 reply that didn't really tell me the information I needed, and this thread seemed…
I have Fr. Matta El Meskeen's "Orthodox Prayer Life" (in translation from SVS Press), and read quite a bit of it before discovering the issues around this man. I still like what I read, but I have not picked it up again to finish it because I figure…
Okay. I'm just curious because I am used to the other way around (in the RC church you have to confess before communion, and if you can't so you have to sit out while others take communion then that's your problem), but I don't want to bring my prej…
[quote author=T✞TL link=topic=9640.msg133959#msg133959 date=1300993700]
If I sinned, I would still take communion then make an appointment to confess.
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Hmm. Is this the teaching of the Church, or just what your parents told you? (Not saying…