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I accept that there are people with different views, but you said that Copts are fighting each other. Do you have evidence of that?
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Are there Copts attacking each other? Is there evidence of this? Father Peter
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I know so many people with knee problems. You kneed to look after your knees. A couple of years ago I did a sponsored walk of 100km with a colleague at work. We walked the St Cuthberts Way in northern England visiting places associated with a great…
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Please. This is a load of dangerous rubbish. Do not let your heart be troubled. Satan would love you to be concerned by this, but the faithful soul should trust the mercy of God.
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It is not really possible to marry outside of Orthodoxy since the sacrament of marriage can only be contracted with an Orthodox Christian. Father Peter
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The Lord bless your service. It is an encouragement to see someone working hard at very humble jobs. If I might advise something. Perhaps you might arrange so that one Sunday a month you are able to participate in the whole liturgy, for your own sa…
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But the issue is that I want to be Orthodox. I joined the Coptic Orthodox Church because it is necessary to join the Church as she exists and not make up our own Church. But I did not join to become Egyptian. I am English. I have happily embraced …
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Lol! I guess we don't disagree then. I am all in favour of people learning Coptic, and the other historic languages in which many texts are still hidden from those of us speaking Western languages. I have made a start with Syriac as well as Coptic.…
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I am hearing that the vast majority of Egyptians would rather Mubarak stayed. I don't think that I trust anything that the BBC says about anything. Father Peter
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How is any of that particularly relevant to now? Egyptians have been set against Egyptians for what? 2000 years? Who are the workers in fine flax and why are they ashamed now? What about every other civil disruption in Egypt over the millenia, ma…
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That's great. I think it is important to be sensitive to the people we have worshipping with us. I have picked up greetings and things in various languages, even Romanian, so that I can at least welcome people, and then offer them the peace in thei…
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The Lord bless you What service are you involved in at Church? Mabsoota is wise, God never requires everything at once. We can sometimes overwhelm ourselves. When we do God's will there is always just enough time. Father Peter
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I think that evangelism begins with us seeking to understand our own Orthodox Faith. Not at the highest academic level, but to be able to explain what it means, both to ourselves and to others. What is this Good News (which is what the word Gospel …
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Why not provide both. I know that I would not want to learn GB if I thought, as I do, that I should use OB. God bless Father Peter
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This will be useful for people. Well done. Which pronounciation will you be using? Father Peter
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Most of the Syrians I know in the UK, including Archbishop Athanasios, are all from Iraq.
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there are many issues we are facing within the church before we can really say we need to go out and preach and focus on some sort of out reach program. A church without youth has no future as youth without a church have no future. I think I have t…
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This agreement shows that the Church does not consider there to be any theological or spiritual impediment to marriage between EO and OO, and that the issue is a matter of good order. Father Peter
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The Lord have mercy on you and guide you. Trust in the Lord.
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And the hierarchy of the Church has authorised this in what way?
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After Chalcedon we considered ourselves to be THE Orthodox Church. When St Severus wrote and spoke of our Churches he always described us just as the Orthodox and when he spoke of the Church in Alexandria, that is what he called it, the Church in A…
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Give thanks to God in all things. May your efforts be rewarded. Father Peter
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jydeacon, thanks. Yes I appreciate that. But I can't recall coming across any Father speaking of the Coptic Orthodox Church, or the Egyptian Orthodox Church. I am interested in when the Church of Alexandria began to describe itself in national and …
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Remnkemi, do you have any idea when the Church of Alexandria was first described as 'Coptic Orthodox'? Would the use of the word 'Coptic' point to a period after the Muslim invasion? Father Peter
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Well it seems to me that it is just a fact that the Greeks invaded Egypt in the 4th century BC, and that they established a Greek civilization in Egypt, which sat on top of the local Egyptian culture. Alexandria became one of the great cities of the…
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Hmmmm.... well I am English, but even I would hesitate to use the word 'laud' in any liturgical text for current use. Father Peter
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GODlovesme, I have to disagree with what you have been taught. There is no evidence that St Mark spoke any Coptic. Indeed we know that when he converted Anianus, who became the first indigenous bishop, Anianus spoke to him in Greek. The people who…