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Let me bump this so people notice it again. Please, let us all pray for the success of this conference, and if anyone could be going and is wavering then please make every effort to attend. Father Peter
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I pray for all people at the altar and during the liturgy when we list the intentions of the people in the congregation. I know that the Eastern Orthodox are rather strict on praying only for people in communion with them, and I can imagine that hi…
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Wow, that's a useful page. I use E-Sword all the time and these are great extra modules I have now downloaded and installed. Thanks Father Peter
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Here is a scan of the Pauline epistles.. http://www.archive.org/details/copticversionofn03horn Father Peter
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The judgement of the Lord is perfect and just, while our desire for vengeance is always based on a partial and usually selfish knowledge of people and events. It has seemed to me that when it is a matter of an individual then it is better to leave…
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And here is an interesting comment... http://www.civitas.org.uk/wordpress/?p=852 Civitas is a UK organisation that produces important and interesting materials on social issues, and though not explicitly Christian it presents a perspective that ta…
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There are lots of very good reasons for resisting the legalisation of assisted suicide, and it should be easy enough to find those on serious news websites. My main concerns are: i. The pressure on old and sick people to agree to an assisted suici…
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I think the answer is in the passage from Revelation.. We are instructed to be zealous if we wish to cease being lukewarm. It is possible to be a Christian in name only, to perform certain actions and appear Christian enough, but if there is no ze…
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I will certainly pray for you. Let me say that I prefer to pray for people by their Christian names, though I will always pray and God knows who you are, so if folk feel comfortable it would be helpful for those asking for prayers to PM me with the…
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Dear Egyboy, I will certainly pray for you. The Lord bless you and grant you peace. Father Peter
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Wikipedia has information about the history of Nubia, including the Christian period, and the end of Christian Nubia after it came under Arab influence and domination. I do have a very good serious history of Christian Nubia with many full colour p…
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I will certainly pray for him John. I am just retiring and will mention him in my prayers and when I wake. I have to wake to let the dog out and Fadi will probably be starting his exam then in Egypt. God bless you and him Father Peter
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There are lots of free ones. I use Audacity... http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Father Peter
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No, I don't think we can use the Garden of Gethsemane to show that our Lord doubted, and certainly not as the heretics did, and do, to show that Jesus had a different will to the Word of God, as if they were two willing subjects. What we see in th…
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Actually when I was an Evangelical and during my late teens a couple of my friends both became HIV positive due to contaminated blood products, they were haemophiliacs and had to take Factor 8 to stop themselves bleeding uncontrollably. There were …
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Dearest to Christ, Ashamed The Christian life is one of love and forgiveness with the aim of forming the image of Christ in each soul. It is not a matter of punishment and laws. We are freed from the Law, or rather we submit to the law of love in C…
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Dearest to Christ, Ashamed The life which God gives us is not a matter of punishment. We are chastened and pruned so that we might become holy and perfect, but God does not punish us out of anger. He always has in mind our salvation and what is nec…
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It is hard to persuade a person who has already made up their minds to a dangerous course of action. And of course prayer for such a person as well as gentle reminders of the life she once lived are powerful. But there is the verse which is a comma…
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We can say that to control the actual outcome of a sinful impulse is a beginning, and being a beginning is a good thing, but if we stop at making a beginning then it can become a bad thing, an excuse. If I often get irritated and angry and snap at …
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If we were only able to receive communion when we had confessed and had no cause to repent then it seems to me that we would never be able to receive communion, because even after we have confessed and are waiting for abouna to finish confessing eve…
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It is probably wisest for members here to read about Origen, and read extracts of his works in secondary sources rather than in primary texts. That way they can be explained in their proper context and people will not become confused. Certainly many…
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Let me add, as a partial answer to mabsoota's question. I have been fortunate to participate in the worship of most of our Oriental Orthodox Churches. Not as often at Coptic liturgies as I would like because I am always busy myself on Sundays, but …
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There can never be a non-cultural Church because of course culture describes what we do and how and why we do it. As soon as we conduct worship in any way we have a particular culture. The British Orthodox Church seeks to reach British people in a …