OK. I have asked about this and confirmed something very important.
First, i still stand what i said before. Christ did raise HIMSELF. What Iqbal said is more towards why we must keep "Christ is risen" because it's the Tradition and Ophadece explai…
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and KIMO MAXIMUS, thanks for this advice below
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those who criticised his comment, instead of…
i have to include this story:
it was me when i started becoming a deacon back in egypt. 10-year-old who was still learning. it's in the middle of liturgy and i learned how to say "sallo min aglel-engil al-moqqdas." it's time for me to say it at one…
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YAY!
Let's all beat up on epshiri . . .
Wait . . . I'm not sure what else to say . . .
We already covered that he has no faith, and that he doesn't belong on this for…
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Also I remember reading that the heavy crosses used to weigh something like 45 pounds/ca. 20 K. The ropes of the cross ripped through the flesh and bruised the collar bones …
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Well religiously speaking, self defence is wrong, but i'm not going to list my findings to keep this short.
I don't care really, I'll defend my self or friends if the need r…
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the list of Coptic Popes there might be incorrect though....
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I double-checked with anoth…
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I visited the following site few days ago and would definately answer all question you have regarding Popes, Patriarchs and Bishops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Pop…
the second picture is not Abouna AbdelMessih el-manahri. I think, not sure, it's abouna Abouna AbdelMessih el-mas'odi, which is a differnt person:
Abouna AbdelMessih el-manahri is him:
to add to that.....it's really "confusing" and puzzling to people when they hear something that is not used a lot. that doesn't mean it's "wrong".....it's just hard to understand.
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Hello,
I heard from our local priest in Margate (UK) that it was during the 40 days after the resurrection when our Lord Jesus Christ gave the disciples, the Church i.e. its…
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I asked my tita this a few days ago and she told me they were the same person (and you know titas, they're 85.423% right ;) ) .. can anyone differentiate between the storie…
what's i said on the other post is the concept is this, according to these verses:
Ro 6:4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also sh…
anther thing with pascha: this is being told by my church deacons for long, but not sure when or who started. it was an old guy saying thok te to goom and instead you hear him saying "go daddy do..."
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Thread. Becoming. Too. Serious. Argh!
So, during a liturgy one time, one of our deacons misplaced the cloth that allows us to hold the bottom of the censer for abouna. In …
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ofcourse it was...i'm not that bad of a person...... i don't know how it happened tho... must have been to absorbed by my thoughts :-\
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i like your profile pic. Ab…
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Guys, we're here discussing a serious topic. Could you PM other people if you have any corrections to make about them.. it distracts the topic when you do it in the middle o…
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Hi SuperMAN(BAM),
I strongly disagree with what you wrote "Chirst arose Himself - truly He arose Himself"; don't take Coptic language literally, because your translation mad…
an abouna story:
couple of priest are in their 40 days in the monastery and when they do liturgies or matins it mostly in like a small chapel and it's only them and maybe some other deacons. so a priest (which i think the monk teaching them) is hold…
ok. this happen in front of me couple of years ago.
Anba David was in our church for new year's and the church was full and he was giving the baraka. so you had like 4-5 deacons waiting for him to get to the middle part of the orbana to get it. so a…
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I was wondering about the following:
1. What is the difference between the words pope and patriarch, if there is one at all..
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According to MW dictionary:
1 oft…
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answer my question please as clear as i asked it
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I did. I said I get a headache.
I go t…