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  • the old shibshib therapy eh?! I feel bad for you kids already! listen, if you were in his shoes would you like to be hit?! if your brother was to come to me and tell me his sister is hitting him, and you're over eighteen, all I would say is bewa…
  • what I understand her and mariam botros were in their own little choirs for church... and slowly moved up to sing with coptic taraneem "professionals"... where people started hearing them more, the only reason Heidy is more popular is because she so…
  • nakhod el baraka...
  • hat kind of porjects do you do? Are they church related? yes all of the projects ARE church related... except if you want one that isn't, which I've been doing research for a relationships book... which I started a few years back, and stopped, but …
  • God is amazing... I use to have the same thing! before my schedule only had school... when God saw it right for me to handle school and something else... He added work... then He added volunteer work...  that some weeks I don't have time to even s…
  • [quote author=peterfarrington link=topic=8852.msg110958#msg110958 date=1266601023] God willing I do want to write an Introduction to the Coptic Orthodox Church, not least for all of the people I deal with who are asking questions about our Faith. I…
  • lol c'mon man you're in AP English and a Wikipedia article is too wordy?! lol this book that abouna posted is actually very helpful... which brings me to my point, even though I should PM abouna about this, but why not ask publicly, abouna, I wou…
  • for archangel Michael, he's celebrated every twelfth of the month, because his feast is on the twelfth of hator... and just like the feast of saint Mary, the church found that this is not enough for him, so they made the twelfth of every month his c…
  • "sana helwa ma yassou"
  • thank you user00... I have these books... I have some people researching... and I'm researching... so we have many books we need to read for this project... also there are the monks who i will be sitting with and discussing the life and problems the…
  • fine... write a long juicy letter, filled with everything in details... from names to actions... and we will send it to anba Bishoy, and to the pope... if nothing happens, than take the same letter and send it to the government officials of that are…
  • well "Certified" Orthodox, as you might think... I think you like argue for the sake of argument... if that problem was really bothering you, the least you would've done is maybe have spoken to fr. Peter privately about it, but for some reason you…
  • Oh dear! Yeah, this is very Egyptian - isn't it. Egyptian men try and get fresh with you. They pretend that they are open minded, and they will try and get fresh with you. They'll want to kiss you, touch you, and do other stuff, and tell you that t…
  • for now I'm in the research stage... insha' Allah I will start shooting in the summer, in California, Texas, and NY... except if by then there is another monastery... its going to be for one of the coptic channels... I will make sure all of you kn…
  • CO, in other posts you said you are from London visiting NY... then now you said you talked to H.G. anba Sarapion... and this involves one of "his" priests... and H.G. is Bishop of California! CO, with all due respect your stories are not consis…
  • what are the ages?
  • [quote author=CertifiedOrthodox link=topic=8833.msg110712#msg110712 date=1266353889] I mean, if this is a cultural thing as Supermanbam suggests, then it has no spiritual value? [/quote] if you seek many of the things that are done, are because o…
  • there is no level higher than a Bishop, so the Pope is just a Bishop, but viewed to be the older bishop... an archbishop just like a priest and an arch priest, or hegemon... no difference in the level deacon and archdeacon, again no difference, …
  • this is the way one is suppose to greet the bishop... this comes from the tradition mentioned before, when one comes to kiss the hand of the parent or grandparent they bow... for the metanoias or matanya, where one actually prostrates and puts his…
  • Even if you did not marry a person who was Christian, yet you had kids together, surely Christ would prefer that you remained together and not divorce over Him!?? if you didnt marry a person who was Christian... the church never said divorce him/her…
  • I would like to add... what do we call the priest? Abouna (our father) so we are one family... and he is the father or the lord responsible of this family. the kissing of the hands is a sign of respect, you kiss the hand of the "highest" level of…
  • funny, I'm actually doing a show just about this... Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to …
  • lol as mina said... dont get me in trouble with him either... lol our church has a rite in which no person is canonized to be called saint (meaning a member of the congregation of the saints, so they are not to be mentioned in the commemoration of…
  • seems pretty boring...
  • I had a female friend every time she'd hug me, she'd stay about 20 seconds or more holding on... to the point that I began to put my hand out to shake hands instead of hugging... lol total failure... so in my handsomeness and my great attracting sel…
  • welcome to the story of my life!!! I have previously doubted God, to the point that I made researches to prove His lack of existence... my friends thought I was going to be the best thing that happened to atheism... literally!  something that we…
  • http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php?topic=8127.msg104224#msg104224 here is a link that has his praise on there... neshkor Allah... akhadna el baraka
  • he's not really supposed to do one for Pope Kerrelos. Anba Abraam is a canonical saint. yes this is why I said hopefully its for his personal use... like I wrote an icon of my late priest... nothing wrong with that, because its for my personal use…
  • In 1992, he enrolled in the prestigious Higher Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo, Egypt and studies Neo-Coptic art under Master Iconographer Dr. Isaac Fanous of blessed memory. After three years’ of intensive study, he earned a Masters Degree in …