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imikhail, Please let me clarify: are you talking about other sister Orthodox churches using the premises of the Coptic church and praying their liturgies, with Coptic congregation and priests present? If so then I am with you. Or are you talking abo…
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Dear Fr. Peter and all, I wasn't actually talking about Coptic language as such, but as traditions and values in the Egyptian cultural context in general. Yes language is part of that, but not every thing. Please forgive me if I say that you give a …
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Is that the case? I am not a hundred percent certain I have to say... have to check and get back to you on that one... Oujai qen `P[C
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Imikhail, So a Coptic priest cannot pray a Coptic liturgy in another Orthodox Church? Neither can any other Orthodox priest from a sister church pray in a Coptic church except a Coptic liturgy? And then we have another whole thread of 6 pages long (…
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Dear Fr. Peter, and joseph.vandenbrink, Let me say this in disagreement with Fr. Peter, the point I will always live disagreeing with him about: my basic understanding of the Coptic Church in the diaspora is to BOTH (1) serve the Coptic community li…
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DEar Zoxsasi, You aren't getting imikhail's point. If those Kenyans pray in the Coptic church they would follow the Coptic liturgy, otherwise form their own church of kenyan orthodox church. Simple as. But for the Coptic church to adopt African trad…
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Dear imikhail and Remenkimi, In support of what imikhail has been arguing I found this website: http://www.biblical-data.org/coptic/coptic_MSS.html It states: "For a discussion of Bohairic one may still refer to Kahle (Bala'izah, pages 250f). We hav…
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Zoxsasi please as imikhail is saying, if your priest doesn't speak French, then you can help out, and your mother can serve as a spiritual guide for the youth. You understand Arabic so you can be effective in sitting down with the priest and find so…
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Dear Zoxsasi, In all replies to deacon's prayers we say "Lord have mercy". The meaning here is not "Lord have mercy on the peace of the world, or those who offered oblations, or through whom", but the complete meaning is "LORD HAVE MERCY ON US". Ple…
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Dear mabsoota, I personally don't like that. It is a stretch, but why? Are we really missing the taste of meat so much so we replicate the food with soya beans? Missing milk? Missing cakes? So what is fasting all about then? Well, yes, back to the e…
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Dear mabsoota, Honey is ok during fasting. Your confusion may stem from the practice that some people in their ascetic fasting styles, refrain from honey and sweets during some fasts (specially the Holy Week, where a larger percentage of people do s…
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IMikhail, Insert them as symbols in a word document, then copy and paste here... Oujai
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Well in addition, some people these days going as far as saying that it is also pronounced as "v" when Mr. Moftah didn't really indicate that (or did he?) Oujai
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Well said imikhail. It is as you say /beyatswon/, or in the quick day-to-day lingo /betswon/. Oujai
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Dear imikhail, Remenkimi in his Coptic quoted text (not sure why you are not able to view Coptic) recites what Mr. Moftah argues in the book "el adella el rabeteya". The latter argues that since the ayya in Coptic is pronounced by COPTS before him (…
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Dear Fr. Peter, Is there any room for material to be recorded onto CD's, and sold later (at a reasonable price of course). Please advise if that is possible. Thanks... Oujai
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Dear timothym, I share with you your sentiments and reasoning behind every thing you said. But how valuable is me sharing those with you? Yes, in fact it turns out that the letter y is not pronounced as /ee/ but as /ai/ and sometimes /eə/ (or even …
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Fr. Peter... like... and +1 I hope to see the day where we can add "LIKE" button to the forum, in facebook's vein. Oujai
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Dear timothym, I hope you don't get disappointed in Copts as a whole, but it is true that because of so much pressure, and societal influences Copts do not act in a very Christian way. There are euchologions as an answer to your question, but unfort…
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Dear Mina and copticuser20, Asoman is not to be sung during the feast of the apostles. That is my understanding... and of course the Acts response and Gospel responses are different. Is there a specific verse for verses of cymbals? Not sure Oujai
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Dear Remenkimi, I fail to understand why your unshakable defence of Greco-Bohairic in such a manner, when you are someone who are well-learned. I am not sure if you say people don't pay attention to what you are saying, when you probably have to giv…
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Guys please... pay attention to something important. Forgetting about legislations, jurisdictions, fame, favourite or preferred names - there are names which are "translatable", i.e. each language will say it its own way, such as names of major figu…
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Dear kmeka001, You asked three questions after my previous post. Other members replied to two of them already. I would like to answer the third one. You may have forgotten this, or may not even remember that I gave you this comment before, on anothe…
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My argument is based on the following: 1. Sales dealings imply transfer of possession rather than a collective ownership. 2. Creates a barrier between the seller and buyer, ie not encouraging a one family position. 3. Implies whether directly or ind…
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Annual tune. Festive only applies for the Lordly feasts and Nayrouz OUjai
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Dear all, In my opinion, there is something wrong with selling anything in the church period. Obviously, in the era of the apostles the faithful would always go and donate the money they had, and share out with each other for the benefit of the whol…
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Yes that's right (as an answer). Jesus went to the synagogue once to find some people selling stuff, we all know how He reacted... Oujai