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I am not the best person to ask since I continue to need to learn to grow in wisdom. But I would suggest that first of all the wisdom we are speaking of is a gift of God and is not the same as intelligence or being clever. As a gift of God it is sp…
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During his life he was one of the most educated men in the whole of Western Europe and surely counts as a late Father. It is sad but wonderful that his tomb remains and has not been desecrated and his relics burnt or destroyed as happened to so ver…
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Can I ask, as an English man, do Copts in Egypt tend to give Coptic or Arabic versions of names for their children. I mean if someone wanted to name their son after St George, which version of his name would usually be given? Father Peter
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18 is rather a young age for a person to move out from home, whether male or female. It depends so much on the circumstances as mabsoota has said, and this is not the place to really find a definite answer. Have you shared your reasons with your FO…
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Thanks be to God the baptism went perfectly, and it was a wonderful experience for me as a priest, and for all those present. Do please continue to pray for a family circumstance, I rely on and appreciate your prayers for my service and my family, …
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It's just a different translation into English. Ghost and Spirit are the same thing in old English. In my church we say 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost'. We could equally say '.. and to the Holy Spirit'. Father Pe…
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Why not zip them up together with winzip or winrar? Father Peter
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I wonder then if priests should be fluent in (English or French or German or whatever) and Arabic and Coptic. Which would mean I have two languages to catch up on. Father Peter
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But how can you live in America if you don't want to use English? How can you obey Christ who commands us to reach the people around us if you don't use English? Does the Church exist for us or for others? I am not in the same situation as Arabic s…
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That is surely what Orthodox means. It is not possible to call a song Orthodox if it is not accurate. If you read the words of the hymns of St Severus they are absolutely accurate in terms of scripture and theology. We should be careful what we sin…
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Would the parents not go to the English liturgy to support their children and show they children how important an understanding participation in the Liturgy is? What about mission? Are there liturgies to which local English speaking people are invi…
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Let me add that I would also prefer that no-one even alludes to bad words. I was blessed to grow up in an evangelical home where my parents did not even allow us to say 'shut-up', and so I find it disturbing to hear even worse words, or allusion to…
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We should not draw attention to ourselves at the Liturgy, and this is why we should neither wear the most expensive clothes nor the poorest, if we have a choice. We are not monks, or Pope Kyrillos. If we are in Church and are dressed in a way that …
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We need to be careful not to impose our own opinions on our Lord and say 'He would do this or that'. We DO know that he attended a wedding and provided the best wine for the guests in a miraculous way. I am sure that there was dancing there. It se…
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I would suggest that what is best is that we attend the liturgy in a manner that draws no attention to ourselves at all. Neither for good or bad. It would be possible to attend in a prom dress and be the centre of attention, just as it would be po…
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I feel exactly the same. I pray and pray for years and do not see the results anywhere I expected and desire. What can I do except pray and pray more. I have come to understand that it is 'the prayers of a righteous man' which are heard and so I h…