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There is a difference between someone bringing some non-fasting food to a shared meal after the Liturgy without understanding the spiritual teaching of the Church, and such food being sold in the Church. This suggests a greater degree of organisatio…
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As ILSM says. It is not acceptable in the Church.
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Science is entirely and absolutely unable to tell us how old the universe really is.
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There are many Fathers who insist on literal 24 hour periods and a recent creation... I would recommend that you read Genesis, Creation and Early Man by Fr Seraphim Rose. — Fr. Seraphim Rose, Letters from Fr. Seraphim by Fr. Alexey Young, pg. 75 …
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I am not sure that they do at all. And in any case, the narrative of Adam and Eve is absolutely necessary to our Faith. There is no problem at all in considering that the universe is both truly apparently ancient, and also recently created. All mo…
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Wow! A 2.5 million dollar church building. You have no idea how much good just 2% of that could do in the UK.
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It should be translated into English because it is better that it is prayed in a non-poetic but good translation to a simple tune than never prayed with understanding at all, or not even prayed at all. In God's time it is always possible for it to …
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If you read here you find some comments from the fathers.... http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ANYpTVpibyEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ancient+christian+commentary+on+scripture+exodus&hl=en&ei=6q8aTqieOMmy8gOq9qWLDQ&…
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The issue is the size of the room we are using at King's College, and that the lecturer felt that 10 was a good number. Do you have 20 people in mind?
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Remnkemi, I have a lecturer ready for next year so there will be an Armenian Language Summer School, God willing, in 2012.
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It seems to me that there is a difference between being concerned with politics, which is to do with the way our society is organised, and becoming a politician, which is a different matter. If Christians are not concerned with politics then they a…
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Pray the Jesus Prayer. Pray it often.
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Will do. I'd like to be able to pick up some Armenian. A couple of years ago I organised an intensive Syriac course, and this year's Coptic course is about to be launched, so I am confident that I could organise an Armenian course next year. Maybe G…
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Lol! If I could spend a couple of weeks with you I'd happily do an intensive Arabic course. This year I am organising a Coptic Language School in September. Next year I might organise an Armenian Language School. I do love language. When things are…
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But in 200 years will your children be American or Egyptian? What should their Orthodoxy look like? Should it be separate from the Orthodoxy of others who are also American and subject to the Patriarchate of Alexandria? The Church of Finland is wit…
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Is Bishop Benyamin from the Patmos Centre?
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Would the Copts in Egypt be able to embrace Armenian communities within their jurisdiction while being respectful of their own Armenian tradition? Would the Armenians in Egypt be able to embrace the structure of the Patriarchate of Alexandria while …
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In Egypt the Greek and Coptic Churches are not part of the same communion, and so that is the reason for a separation. But in our Orthodox communion every single Orthodox Christian is already a member of the same Church. Every bishop is a bishop of…
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Yes, I agree, but many of the religious orders exist because they were created to renew the monastic spirituality in the West. The original orders were all enclosed until the Franciscans, and teaching and service orders are even more recent. So I a…
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What is it about Catholic religious orders that you think is needed in Eastern Christianity?
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That's good. I hope that similar practices will take place in all cities and states around the Western world.
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There is no problem with being associated with a particular tradition, but there is a problem when a particular tradition is elevated above all other particular traditions and the sense of a common faith is diminished. There is also a problem, as fa…
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Quite true, indeed exactly true. But your nationality has changed. You are now an American, and your children will be even more so American. What is required for Coptic Orthodoxy to become an American Orthodoxy with Coptic roots? There is a place …
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An important recent work to study on this topic is ... Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption Shoemaker, Stephen J., Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-…
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Quietly removed is English for murdered. I'm not sure why you are so resistant to this fact of history?
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The Coptic language is not of ultimate value, it is of a secondary value, just as English (which I love immensely) is of secondary value. What matters is what we believe, and how we live, the culture we find ourselves in is secondary. That doesn't…
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Your essential identity should be Orthodox. Nothing else matters very much. If you went to live in Armenian you should join the Armenian Orthodox Church, if you went to live in Syria you should join the Syrian Orthodox Church. Of course while yo…
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Why is it anything other than idle curiosity to investigate such a thing? I don't mean to sound harsh, but this does seem to have nothing to do with our own salvation at all. It is particularly dangerous to guess why a person might be upset.
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There are lots of references to his murder from many sources. When the Greek Patriarch used to leave Egypt he would leave his community in the care of Pope Kyrillos IV.
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Well to be honest, if I think something is bad English then as an English speaker it probably is. The fact that 'unto' may or may not be used in Scripture translations has nothing to do with it being bad English or not. It depends entirely on what …