[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5903.msg79140#msg79140 date=1194350607]
Dear all,
Without counting me as a heretic, I think I can come up with some kind of conclusion that is relieving for us all, but again down to my sheer exertion. That is: we p…
[quote author=His Servant link=topic=5903.msg79132#msg79132 date=1194309132]
actually we do not. vespers praises is following the same day... notice it is prayed BEFORE 6. which is before the start of the next day. Vespers IS NOT supposed to be pray…
[quote author=Hos Erof link=topic=5903.msg79111#msg79111 date=1194297995]
Okay, fair enough, but that still doesn't explain why we use the Adam mode on a watos day, especially when u consider that the vesper praise (which is connected to the vespers…
[quote author=Hos Erof link=topic=5903.msg79099#msg79099 date=1194275460]
The only thing that is really is weird is that we say "aktonk" instead of "aki", and this leaves me with no clear answer. We should either pray the whole of Vespers in Watos m…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5903.msg79025#msg79025 date=1194006020]
Dear all,
I would like to reply to my question if you have an idea. I know we refer to the hymns said in Vespers and Matins as "verses of cymbals", as the Arabic translation o…
[quote author=gregorytheSinner link=topic=5888.msg78942#msg78942 date=1193804342]
I dont have a question, more like a comment, that i'd like people to think about guess take heed of:
I remember how there was a thread not to long ago were we were ta…
[quote author=Unworthy1 link=topic=5894.msg78985#msg78985 date=1193890699]
Can anyone please help me find information or give me any information they know about the history and origins of "Ke Eperto" and "Ti parthenos"? I am doing a power point pres…
[quote author=bishoykhali link=topic=5886.msg78939#msg78939 date=1193802041]
Hi I just wanted to note that the to link the view/listen to the Great Response of the Oblations under Hymns>Great Feasts>Resurrection>HICS>Great Response of th…
[quote author=bishoykhali link=topic=5887.msg78940#msg78940 date=1193802229]
Hi this year's daylight savings time isn't going to be on the normal time, so the server probably just automatically adjusted to the normal daylight savings time. So now th…
[quote author=copticcross3 link=topic=5881.msg78895#msg78895 date=1193709456]
so the other day, i was in the car with my friend and her sister..and we passed by a mormon church and i mentioned that it's wierd how they don't have a cross anywhere in …
[quote author=Doubting Thomas link=topic=5820.msg78377#msg78377 date=1192591641]
I think there should be an option for me and other Christians to celebrate the Mystery of the Communion in a Church that does not use languages we cannot fathom, in a c…
[quote author=Safaa link=topic=5837.msg78362#msg78362 date=1192564845]
Congratulation, May the Lord Our God Jesus Christ, the High Priest, grant him a holy and blessing priesthood.
Mina, I have a question:
Dose abouna, before ordination was one of …
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5820.msg78348#msg78348 date=1192524394]
Dear minagir,
I was in no way contradicting myself: it is just that you taught me something new saying that the altar in the monasteries of old (as I understood) was concealed…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5820.msg78337#msg78337 date=1192481229]
Dear 2_live_is_Christ,
I never said or hinted that the projector or the kholagy have any advantages: what I am saying is in all honesty, I don't see this as ideal being used i…
One day, he went to the desert of Scete, at Wadi-El Natroun, and he entered the church in a uniform of a stranger monk and a great miracle took place at that time. It came to pass, that after the priest had placed the Qurban on the altar and gone ar…
[quote author=Unworthy1 link=topic=5820.msg78201#msg78201 date=1192071217]
I personally believe that the projectors in church have both an upside and downside. The upside is it provides a visual for people who are visual learners (i.e. when Abouna i…
[quote author=Christ4Life link=topic=5820.msg78195#msg78195 date=1192065489]
The languages usually follow up with each other, so even though I may only know how to read English and Coptic I can still tell which slide I am supposed to be on.
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[quote author=jydeacon link=topic=5820.msg78190#msg78190 date=1192064375]
No of course not, i guess it is a distraction now because we are still learning how to use the ppt with all the liturgies and working the kinks out
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that's y u need …
[quote author=Life in Christ link=topic=5820.msg78178#msg78178 date=1192057737]
Very Very well spoken and i agree with you 100% I would like to again mention that the Laptop/Projector should NOT replace a katamerous, YES IT CAN BE PROJECTED. BUT NOT…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5820.msg78170#msg78170 date=1192029904]
Dear all,
No, I am not trying to say that we have to make it hard on ourselves, or make faith a practically impossible thing to achieve in the church. But what I am saying is …
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5820.msg78157#msg78157 date=1192009624]
Dear all,
what do you think about the use of projectors in church service?"
As for me, I find this practice completely unsuitable. My points of objection are:
1- the practice …
[quote author=Stavro link=topic=5818.msg78107#msg78107 date=1191905721]
what ever Sadat did was his own choise. those islamic groups where the ones who killed him, as some ppl believe. what he ment to do is to take those ppl and make out of them tru…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78099#msg78099 date=1191903000]
But Mina, how about if both the parents and priest talk to the child? Wouldn't you think that maybe the message might click in the child's head, whoever it may be???
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[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78097#msg78097 date=1191901233]
John,
My point is that not all of the Epsaltoses are like that. I never said that there weren't any, I am just saying that that was stereotypical. I definitely agree with you on…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78093#msg78093 date=1191898140]
Well, Mina, John, and Severus,
That is definitely way too stereotypical. First, Mina and John, I was raised by my parents to love the Church. I am pretty sure anybody who has a …
[quote author=Severus link=topic=5806.msg78089#msg78089 date=1191896717]
Why don't we just teach the children Coptic? They can learn it. It isn't that hard...half of the letters are familiar to them anyway!
I think that the Sunday school system sho…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78085#msg78085 date=1191896096]
Yeah, we need the Coptic language to move on or else we are going to need another revival for the Coptic language. Also, Mina, many parents just like to see that their kids are …
[quote author=copticcross3 link=topic=5806.msg78081#msg78081 date=1191894619]
yeah, we have one in my church too.
well, the children can read, Can't they?
they can translate it on their own, i don't feel why coptic and arabic are cut out so much, ju…