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I think it would be helpful to refer to the proper ranks of service rather than call every male Copt a deacon. There is a rank of Deacon, and it is the most senior and properly only those who have proved themselves to be humble, capable and obedien…
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My personal opinion is that it would be good to have dedicated females who committed themselves to service in the Church. Indeed their ministry would be a witness as to what that of all deacons properly is, one of humble service. We must remember …
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It's a bit of a tricky issue for someone who wants to be a conservative and traditional Orthodox. On the one hand you don't want to consider changing the calendar, but on the other hand it is clearly not what the Fathers intended to celebrate Chris…
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Lol! That is OK then. I don't mind taking account of children as long as the tradition isn't abandoned. I am not grumpy. Don't think I am. Just a conservative. Father Peter
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Lol! How did our fathers cope for 2000 years without electric candles! There seems to me to be good spiritual and theological reasons for using a real flame. It symbolises so many things, it consumes the candle as an offering to God etc etc. If a…
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before we got electronic candles for the little kids to hold during the gospel, they would hold the normal, dangerous, able-to-burn-cloths-and-hair candles... Electric candles...... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Fath…
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Ioannes, Viv is wanting to study for a higher degree so will have to focus on a very narrow area. I would expect that there are many scholars who could provide oversight for such research and would not necessarily be Coptic specialists but rather s…
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I guess what confuses me is the confusion between ethnic community and church community. I know that to some great extent this might be the same for Copts, especially those not in the West. The presentation shows that the Indians, Chinese etc have …
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Pi Onkh, the Orthodox churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, and Bulgaria have adopted the Revised Julian calendar - which means that the fixed feasts are according to the revised/corrected calendar while the Pasch…
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Hi ophadece, the issue is that the Feast of the Cross will not be on the 27th, it will slowly continue to process through the calendar and will eventually take place in October, then November etc etc. The issue is that the Julian calendar is too sho…
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I suppose the change could take place at whatever is considered the quietest part of the year so that major feasts would not be affected. But as ILSM says, it is a one time change. The issue is, for instance, that Pascha ends up being nowhere near …
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It seems to me that it is a website with political and social aims in view, and this therefore trying to accumulate numbers. I am not sure that it is for me as a non-ethnic-Copt to say if that is right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate. Father…
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Generally most of the monarchies were modern, and the various European states were equally recent in origin. They were all part of either the Autro-Hungarian Empire, or the Ottoman Empire. A constitutional monarchy may be the best form of governmen…
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I can see the benefit of a global directory, but it is the stress on having power in numbers that confuses me. Since when has the Church ever needed numbers to have the power that matters? Father Peter
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Most of the Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe still have royal families in exile. There are even claimants to the Byzantine Imperial throne. Our own Prince Philip is a member of the Greek royal family, and he was brought up Orthodox. His sister …
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Because the Western world, and then most of the rest of the world, has revised the calendar hundreds of years ago because the old one which the Coptic Orthodox Church uses is slowly moving away from the correct seasons. So eventually, after thousand…
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Which period of Coptic Church history are you proposing to study? I would not imagine that you need to find a Coptic history specialist so much as a Middle Eastern Church historian, since the relations of the various Sees are so intertwined. If y…
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St Alban was the first martyr in Britain, and his shrine has been a continual place of pilgrimage ever since the 3rd/4th centuries. We are blessed to have a portion of his relics in my little Church. He was a Roman officer who hid a Christian priest…
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No, but we started 13 days before you did. It makes sense for us to use the British calendar. When would be keep the Feast of St Alban, the Proto-Martyr of the British Isles? His feast is on June 22nd. Should we keep it then with other British Chri…
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We use the normal calendar for the fixed feasts because this is part of our mission to British people. The British Feast of the Nativity is on 25th December for instance. We keep the Paschal cycle of Lent, Holy Week and Pentecost on the same date a…
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The British Orthodox diocese keeps the Feast of the Nativity tonight on the 25th December. Father Peter
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Well it pretty much happened like that. Constantinople was easily turned to mob rule. You can see from the introduction that the variety of use was not previously a matter of great dispute. But the author is wrong in saying the addition was by Peter…
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If a Church founded by the Apostles ceases to be Orthodox then it no longer has any Orthodox sacraments. Father Peter
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Orthodoxy knows nothing about 'validity'. This is a Roman Catholic concept. We know only whether a sacrament is accepted or not. And the Coptic Orthodox Church does not accept the Roman Catholic sacraments. It is irrelevant whether or not a commun…
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Dear Aidan, I guess that I would want to say that if there was a scale it would have Theodore of Mopsuestia at one end, and probably not Eutyches at the other, but the Synousiasts that various non-Chalcedonian Fathers fought against. We would con…
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The Trisagion as a hymn to Christ and with the Christological addition, '..thou who wast crucified for us..' was used in Antioch during the episcopate of Eustathius (325-330), and therefore had a history of 140 years of use before the time of Peter …
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The Trisagion was first of all a hymn to Christ used in the See of Antioch. The Oriental Orthodox continue to use it in a Christological manner. We know that even strict Chalcedonian two-nature supporters also used it in a Christological sense in An…
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Do try and read all of this post because it requires time to explain the teaching of the Church. The account of our Lord praying in the Garden of Gethsemane has been used by those who wish to suggest that our Lord was essentially no more than a God…