That's not what I meant.. bottom line is ladies aren't to give instructions to men, but to other ladies and children, and may contribute if they see something not completely correct.. that's my opinion..
Oujai
Dear Gabriella,
I don't think you are allowed to lead tasbeha. You may of course be able to suggest to deacons what to do, and what to say, and give them the right order if they don't know, but all in all it's better than they don't depend on you to…
Dear Remenkimi,
I am so sorry for my late reply; quite busy these days.
You said:
"Additionally, can you or someone else confirm if ذاقت is pronounced /do't/ in Cairene Arabic and /za 'kat/ in Modern Standard Arabic? I don't deny my Arabic is weak …
Dear Remenkimi,
There is "eyin" pronunciation in Coptic, but no letter, as it descended from Demotic in a weak form. Yet it was still pronounced in some words with a. One can argue that in Sahidic it is a bit more pronounced than in Bohairic, but so…
NO it isn't optional, but is skipped for several reasons: because there is no time with other long chants, no time for the chanting of antiphonarium, sometimes it's read tuneless; or because people don't know the tune at all; or because even synexar…
THere is what is called a Greco-Bohairic dialect, which is nothing more than a cover name for a flawed teaching based on a flawed principle. You can research material for authentic Coptic language on www.remenkimi.com...
Oujai
Dear Coptic_Deacon,
If you try to learn Coptic at the hands of people who studied it in Egypt (flawedly) you would understand where Copticnandproud is coming from. Because the Greek language pronounced "x" uniquely, it got transformed over the year …
Dear Copticandproud,
Ignore that teaching please.. there is no such thing in any living language, so let's not make Coptic artificial... BTW, what is the rule for the letter "c" in English?
Oujai
Imikhail, arebsalen is also given the title roumi.. would you shed a light on the difference? BTW I agree with your points above so don't take it as if I'm disputing..
Oujai
Yes imikhail,
I'd venture saying that its inclusion was due to no one bothering singing genetlion which I presume like Ekhrestos anesty didn't enter our hymnody in the Erian effendi's era.. correct me if I'm wrong please...
Oujai
Thanks Alex for this fruitful discussion. I guess you lack the knowledge of examples of people who still speak Coptic in their homes to this very day, but those are a minority anyway. I agree with you in all what you said however, and share your sen…
Thanks again Alex for your honest views that may be deemed as embarrassing to someone like me, lacking motivation altogether. The thing is I don't believe that the disinclination by Copts to use Coptic as everyday language wasn't principally related…
You may find it here:
http://st-takla.org/Multimedia/04-Sermons/04-Sermons-08-Fr-Arsanious-Aziz-Serry-05_.html
or page 1 of the same preacher uploads.
I don't think I could find anymore links though...
Oujai qen `P[C
Dear Amdah and Christ's servant,
Thanks for your responses. If people don't want to learn long hymns, then why should we compromise and not pray them? Because people don't want to... oh yes, but we should have a better aim in our lives as deacons an…
Dear superMan(Bam),
I disagree with what you urge churches to do.. hymns are another way of praying, so what we're doing these days is instead of urging the faithful to pray more, or longer than we are used to, we pander to their wishes of an expres…
HAting long hymns is equal in my book to hating prayer.. just imagine (not you of course) that we'll live the hymns and prayers for eternity...
However that's no excuse for love of praise and showing off, a common mistake learned deacons fall in..
O…