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[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5497.msg73700#msg73700 date=1183454663] Dear Mina, By that, do you mean the in the second text "son of the gods" means it refers to angels rather than Jesus Christ. Now, there is another question though? How could t…
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=5506.msg73673#msg73673 date=1183388163] What if a woman had a brain transplant and had the brain of a man, PLUS a sex change!? Would that be a sin? [/quote] what's wrong is that PLUS. also i don't think they are…
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[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5497.msg73671#msg73671 date=1183386858] Dear Hos Erof, Thanks very much for the link you sent me. However, no, I didn't find the answer to my question. Is there a contradiction between what we were taught in the chu…
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[quote author=desertnurse link=topic=5513.msg73651#msg73651 date=1183330647] I am looking for a role. A role to fill, and one that is more deaconess than deacon. I want to feed the hungry, heal the sick, and cloth the needy. I have always felt a …
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[quote author=desertnurse link=topic=5507.msg73589#msg73589 date=1183171065] I found this article in my favorite website: Wikipedia.org This article believes that deaconesses were ordained and part of the three-fold ministry of the ancient church. […
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I agree with Orthodox11....just one thing thooo.... deaconship have 5 main ranks (can also be 6). if u are any of these 5/6 ranks ur a deacons. same as Priests as being Priests and Hegumens. and Bishops being Bishops, Metropolitens, and Archbishops.…
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=5506.msg73486#msg73486 date=1183045473] Hello, What is the view of the Coptic Orthodox Church on people that undergo sex changes? Is this a sin? We disagree with homosexuality, but what is our position if a wom…
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=4444.msg73361#msg73361 date=1182871591] Mina, U don't believe that the Catholic communion is "fully true" ??!! WHy not? Our Sunday School teacher said it was the real Body and Blood of Christ. We just can't communio…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=5402.msg73347#msg73347 date=1182868677] Dear Vassilios, God decides who goes to heaven. I cannot imagine why an innocent baby should not go to Heaven - but as I say, God knows - and since He is the only Just Judge,…
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[quote author=EpNomos EnTaio link=topic=5489.msg73303#msg73303 date=1182838454] Yes, this is the hymn i'm looking for, but i was looking for an audio file of the fast tune it is said in. [/quote] let me try if i can upload an album online.
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i don't think there are any specific published books that have coptic-english words. u can make ur own by i guess picking some from the hymn text library and other links around.
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[quote author=EpNomos EnTaio link=topic=5489.msg73217#msg73217 date=1182756101] Hey all, I'm looking for an audio version of the hebrew tune for Shere Theotoke, which is the introduction to O Kirios Meta So. This tune is also commonly known as the …
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[quote author=Doubting Thomas link=topic=4615.msg73181#msg73181 date=1182691941] I don't think pornography is bad because they have half-naked women(or even men), or perhaps completely nude women or men. As a medical student, I see nudity all the ti…
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[quote author=Christforlife7 link=topic=5441.msg73161#msg73161 date=1182641417] yea its sung as a praise to the virgin usually during the st mary fast if im not mistaken? [/quote] it's one of the glorification hymns which also includes St. Mary Fast…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=4421.msg73157#msg73157 date=1182633895] Dear Mina, In the second one that is what 'flux' means. You are quite correct that we do not regard this as 'unclean', and there is a difference between physical and spiritua…
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Thanks John. but for some reason, i don't think the saeond passege specified anything about menstruation. also i don't think we fully act like the Jewish tradition because we don't look at women by being unclean but rather lookinh at the lost of blo…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=4421.msg73147#msg73147 date=1182618047] In the The Apostolic Constitutions (VI, 27) it is written: Now if any persons keep to the Jewish customs and observances concerning the natural emission and nocturnal pollution…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=5483.msg73142#msg73142 date=1182612717] Doesn't it show how much Orthodox Churches have in common - despite the split in 451 and everything that has happened since - makes you think really! [/quote] well yes i can s…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=5483.msg73126#msg73126 date=1182586480] Although she is writing about Eastern Orthodoxy, the following from Frederica Mathewes-Greene is helpful http://www.frederica.com/12-things/. [/quote] this is just great. i r…
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[quote author=Orthodox11 link=topic=5483.msg73134#msg73134 date=1182604034] I don't think anyone else mentioned - stand on the left ;) [/quote] well since this is Taylor, i've posted a picture of our church once and actually shown him where to stan…
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[quote author=desertnurse link=topic=5483.msg73120#msg73120 date=1182574536] OK, I'm going to a Coptic service this Sunday or next. Any do's and don'ts? [/quote] the most important do is to actually pay attention to everything that goes on. mostly…
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[quote author=shnoda link=topic=5433.msg73087#msg73087 date=1182517141] hi all, i have all what u want, nearly all the tasbeha teaching classes, some of kiahk long hymns, some doxologies and psalias. not all of them are of good quality but some are …
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[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5416.msg73088#msg73088 date=1182517588] In any case, in all honesty, I didn't like the idea that that cantor in minagir's previous church used to skip the long part of the hymn and basically just sing the introducto…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=5342.msg73034#msg73034 date=1182445947] Dear Mina, The instruction in the St. James about how to receive the 'lamb' comes in the rubrics, which reads thus: In The Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem lect…
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=5470.msg72998#msg72998 date=1182432101] no where buddy does it say in the marriage sacremant of the Holy Coptic Orthodox Church that the man must submit to his wife. NO WHERE. SHe has to submit!! Its her!! Not us!…
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[quote author=Anglian link=topic=5342.msg73029#msg73029 date=1182444855] The short answer to Mina's question would appear to be 'yes'. Hope that helps. [/quote] i little more details please. becaue i know our liturgy ends with the same prayers whi…
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please someone clearfy this: so communion in the hand or mouth depends on the liturgy your praying?
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=5477.msg73025#msg73025 date=1182443834] I mean, there are bishops in our church that still eat only Halal meat, and this is STILL way back from the Jewish traditions. They are still living that, so thinkng that some…
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[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5478.msg72987#msg72987 date=1182427594] Dear all, I was listening to Pha Nitenh sung to Archangel Michael from two sources, Cantor Towfik, and Cantor Zaher (as minagir told me, he is Abba Raphael's cantor). Anyway, …
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=5477.msg73006#msg73006 date=1182433113] Hmm... that's strange. Maybe if you had it cut it would help you grow more in your spiritual life?? It must decrease for you to increase. ;) [/quote] i don't seee this funny.…