Hello All4Christ,
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St. Mark, The Evangelist
St. Mark is considered to be the founder of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He is one of the Seventy Apostles appointed by our Lord (Mark 10:10), and one of the fou…
The sin of pride
St. Isaac the Syrian
+ “ Brother, do not think that the prayers, the readings, the prostration, the fasting and the sweet tears are the work with God. Believe me, in my opinion, even the vile thoughts, false praise, blasphemy, adu…
Hello sandrahanna,
I will try to explain to you the union between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in an easy and illustrative way, although Coptic boy explained before.
Suppose you are sitting in a room with a window or a balcony, and you …
Great answer MarMar91
The answer to your questionis:
Bartimaeus is the blind man in Jerico
HIS name means: the son of Timaeus
His father's name is Temaeus
The story is mentioned in the Gosple of St. Mark Chapter 10.
Match the person with the deeds.
1- Eve (a) Killed Goliath
2- Noah (b) Parted the red sea
3- Jacob (c) Ate the forbiden fruit
4- Joseph (d) Was swalled by a whale
5- Moses …
Horoscopes, reading the palm, reading the tea leafs, looking through crystal, open the cards, observing the forehead for lines ....., all are false prediction of the future.
No one knows the future except the Almighty God. He is the Pantocrator, H…
A bird is able to fly if it has two wings, and we can not fly to heaven unless we have two wings too.
These two wing are what the Orthodoxy call them
1- Faith, including practising the Holy Sacraments.
2- Good works, aquiring virtus.
1- Pope Kyrillos I " Pillar of Faith " (24) 412-444 A.D.
2-Pope Kyrillos II (67) 1078-1092 A.D.
3- Pope Kyrillos III (75) 1235-1243
4- Pope Kyrillos IV (110) …
still do not understand why satan has to be judged. can you explain it to me again
10: and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day an…
It seems that there is an insidious attempt , on the part of some members , whether intentionally or unintentionally, to undermined the Holy Sacrament of Repentance and Confession.
First start by mentioning that the Lord Himself instituted both the…
On the 8 th of the Coptic month Abib, the Church celebrate :
The Departure of St. Anba Bishoy.
On this day, St. Bishoy, whose memorial is honorable, the star of the desert, departed. He was born in a town called Shansa in Egypt, and he had six b…
This is a story about St. Bishoy teaching the monks about the Holy Trinity:
During his days, an ascetic old man appeared in the mountain of Ansena, who was reputed for his righteousness and to whom many people gathered. But he deviated from the tr…
On June 24 th of every year, the Coptic Church celebrates the anniversary of the return of the relics of St. Mark to the newly erected Cathedral in the land of Anba Rewais in Cairo
The following is the Synaxarium reading of that day:
On this da…
The word of the mouth "the tradition " had taught Abel that the sacrifice that would please God is the animal sacrifice and not like his brother Cain who offer to God from the field and was rejected.
Cain learned that from his parents, Adam & Ev…
The tradition, the word of mouth from generation to generation, has kept the teaching of God to His people. After that Moses wrote all the revelation of God from creation till his death in the five Holy Books of Torah.
Mark423,
You have said it the best!!!!, psychology is not a science, it is a pseudo science. Sorry for anyone who major or have a course in psychology. I did not mean to heart anyone's feeling.
" For the tree is known by its fruits. " Matthew12:3…
The first verse in the Holy Bible “In the beginning God created heavens and earth” Gen. 1:1
When God created heavens they were completely formed. We can understand that from the book of Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and …
I think this topic is one of these topics, that go unanswered..
I think Marianne87 and my weakness try to answer the suicide issue from the point of view of the Coptic Church, whom the Almighty entrusted her to manage the Kingdom of God on earth.
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socolbishoy,
Suicide is a mortal sin that has no forgiveness according to the view of the Coptic Church that bind or loose by the promise given to her by the Lord Himself.
If the church dose not pray over the person after death, asking God to reci…
,he mentioned sucide... but I am psych. major, and I disagree with it... lol...
Hello socoolbishoy,
It is O.K. for you to disagree with H.H., but this is public forum and many teen-ages are reading it and you may convey unintentionally a negative…
To sandrahanna and all who want to learn Coptic Language,
Learn Coptic Language:
1- Lessons from "Read & Pray" book:
.. Each lesson consists of some sub lessons
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
2- Video lessons by H.G.…
Hello Mary 202,
One of your many question, why there is Boo-Kour “Incense “ in the Coptic Church? And what is the symbolism of it?
Actually it was the commandment of God. I N the Holy Book of Malachi “chapter 1 verse11
11- “For from the rising o…