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This is also a matter of concern... http://www.htb.org.uk/social-transformation/coptic-mission Why is Holy Trinity Brompton advertising for Evangelical Pentecostal christians to go and serve at the Coptic Orthodox mission in Kenya? How is this po…
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Sorry, what you are saying is, if someone finds the spirituality of fasting difficult then they should not fast. The answer to sin is not giving in to it. A person's spiritual father can provide guidance. Someone who overeats after fasting needs t…
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imikhail, such a thing should never take place in the sanctuary. Worship in the Orthodox tradition is NOT accompanied by musical instruments. It is wrong to distinguish between worship on one context and in another. All worship must be Orthodox. T…
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Here is news from a PENTECOSTAL Church in Wales... July 8th saw the final evening of our current Alpha course. As well as great food, the talk and group discussion our evening included a poem written by one of our Alpha course members who comes fro…
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This is not really appropriate during the fast.. Why not eat small and consistently throughout the day. Pope Shenouda says that the fast IS about feeling hungry, and that if we do not feel hungry then we are not fasting. Father Peter
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The major problem is the influence on Coptic congregations in the West.
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Then I guess Orthodox need to petition their bishops for action to be taken.
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Each bishop is father of his own diocese and so needs to deal with this himself. It might be good if the Synod issued an instruction, but it seems to me that the clear instructions from the 2009 synod are being ignored in any case. My own bishop wo…
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This has been discussed in some depth just last week here... http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php/topic,10928.0.html Just the cross should be used and the deacon's prayers should be said quietly as part of a conversation of prayer with t…
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I think it is beneficial to act out scenes from the lives of the saints. That way we are not making up a teaching which may be incorrect and we are also encouraging a devotion to the saints. There are many dramatic scenes in the lives of the desert…
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Sense of humour? What sense of humour? Soon I shall be supreme poster! Today tasbeha.org, tomorrow the world!!!
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It is all part of my master plan to become top poster. Only 3% of mina's posts are allowed through. Christ4Life will soon be overtaken and then only mina will stand between me and supreme postership.
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Orthodoxy in general has developed different attitudes to confession, which tend to vary with frequency of communion. In those places and times when communion is infrequent then confession and lengthy preparation are usually enjoined, but where comm…
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It is a phenomena that has spread around the world and most charismatic Churches have been influenced by it. It involves mad laughing, rolling on the floor, making noises like animals - all apparently caused by the Holy Spirit! This is where Prot…
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Here is one charismatic service where the so-called 'Toronto Blessing' is manifested... Very disturbing at the least
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I am not disagreeing with holding to the teachings of the Church, I am disagreeing with simply producing canons when people have questions as if that answered everything. There may well be Arabic texts, but there are also Greek texts. St Timothy of…
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There are Fathers who say that we should clean our teeth and if we swallow a little water by accident it should not prevent us receiving communion since these are the accidents of life that Satan wishes to use to prevent the faithful from communing.…
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This is not accurate. It is permitted to go to the toilet, it is permitted to clean our teeth etc etc etc. There is an issue with various bodily processes and the current practice of the Coptic Orthodox Church is to be relatively restrictive, with…
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The two words are equivalent. For those used to more traditional English the form 'Holy Ghost' comes naturally, but if I was writing an article I would probably use 'Holy Spirit'. I guess most younger people would not use Holy Ghost so much, but it …
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Holy Ghost is what we say in English. Here is a passage from the Bible... Mat 28:19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Father Peter
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Dear Joseph, I will take a look at the site. Thanks. The issue here is not so much evangelising protestants but allowing protestantism to be adopted by Orthodox youth and imported into the Church. I think that this aspect of the problem requires fi…
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Dating is participating in exclusive relationships and spending time alone within such relationships when not of an age or condition to be considering marriage. Such one on one relationships at an inappropriate age are dangerous from a variety of pe…
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Well we know that almost everything that protestantism teaches is wrong. This is not to say that many protestants are not sincere, devout and pleasant people. But almost everything that is taught is wrong. Only that which remains from the distant Or…
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You may see nothing wrong with dating but this is not the view of the Church.
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Dear John Thank you for your suggestions, they are appreciated, but I am not developing the site in any way at all, just trying to keep the forum in order. If Maged sees this he may have some comments. God bless Father Peter
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Mostly PHP and MySQL databases. I can do other web languages if I have to. Presently I am doing an Access database for a client so I am having to do some VBA.
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You are ignoring the fact that it WAS at vastly different periods. The Islamic rule of the 15th century was nothing like the rule of the 7th century. So I don't agree that Constantinople suffered the same fate as Alexandria. It was very different. …
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Be careful as the Nag Hammadi library is a collection of heretical gnostic texts and is not Orthodox.
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There seems to be plenty of evidence. Here is one personal account by a Westerner of conversations with those who would know... The Rev. G. Greenwood's Account of a Visit to the Christian Churches in Cairo, 1884-1885, published by the "Association …
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I am sorry, you seem to have missed the point that Constantinople was not conquered by Islam in this period. And you are trying to insist on only ONE factor. There must have been several. Islam was one of them. The opposition of some later church l…