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Dear all, Since minagir and hoserof mentioned this, I would like to ask them to answer my question. Because most of the time I don't attend the Feast Masses early enough, I usually miss out the parts in matins. So, I would like to ask how are both t…
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Dear shnoda, Thanks for answering my question. Just to point out that it is nice to know how these things are organised in each church, as I myself learn hymns through CD's and downloads, and not in the church. God bless you all and mention me in yo…
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Dear all, It is a pity I can say. I don't know where Cephas comes from, but I come from Egypt myself, and hey thousand and thousand of churches and of monasteries were taken, for the payment of blood and lives of great saints and martyrs, and this i…
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Dear Cephas and all, No, not at all. There is nothing you should apologise about. I didn't take any offences, and I said many times before I didn't have a strong argument myself. I actually don't know of any books for rites of our church, but I will…
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Dear all, I think that Cephas put across the opinion that we all wanted in the best way. I think we will all agree. God bless you all and mention me in your prayers
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Dear minagir, Thanks for answering my questions. In fact, that goes with my understanding about deaconesses, and here it makes what happened in shnoda's church not acceptable. I might agree with you to a great extend that I shouldn't generalise or p…
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Dear minagir, and Cephas, and all, I think minagir first misunderstood my point, and built upon it a comment which I didn't mean. Only one point, which is I never said that women, or girls cannot sing in the church, or have to be quiet all the way t…
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Dear He Wept, I think my opinion is that we can't define the times. It is God's creation (yes, even time itself). We can't come to know why dinosaurs first, how long they really lived, or whatever questions, and science can never know why the first …
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Dear Mike, Yes, I agree with John. Please don't you get confused. Basically, the hypostasis of the Father cannot become incarnate, nor can that of the Holy Spirit, but the that of the Son can. The three is One, but it is just different characteristi…
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Dear shnoda, and all, I am really not only surprised but also disappointed by your opinions. I don't think it was right at all what abounda did, and moreover there are deaconnesses in California. Well, it won't surprise me then to see a "priestess" …
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Dear hizz_child, If you can approach your teacher in this manner, I think you will resolve many problems. Always ask him to give references, or just say if it was his personal opinion when giving any piece of information. Politely, respectfully, and…
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Dear tifsehit, I think John aka Anglian smmed it all up. That is it. I will add another point (which I hope I am not adding to your concerns). Here in the Coptic Orthodox Church in England, the young don't really show respect for the church, and pri…
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Dear egy and all, I agree very much with rana_rizk, as actually what her priest was doing is putting Pope Shenouda's words in another way. I think what the Pope meant is that we should really consider ourselves mature if we are mature enough to stop…
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Dear hizz_child, Actually, I think in all honesty, that you asked the question, and you answered it as well. All of us go through this period of uncertainty and confusion, but I think I agree with answer. Even though you are shocked, even though you…
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Dear bhm2c, I wish you are fine. I haven't heard from you your opinion about all the members' comments. I think we will all benefit, not only you, if this is a discussion, not just QA's. God bless you all and mention me in your prayers
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Dear Wagdi, Thank you very much for your reply. I invited you on my MSN, and my nickname is ophadece. I would very much appreciate if you can send me the hymn online. Thanks so much. God bless you and mention me in your prayers
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Dear lildude, I am so sorry if I put you off or got you off your topic by my style of discussion. For a couple of weeks you haven't posted a thread to discuss with other members. It could be my fault or anyone else's, but I just want to say that we …
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Dear all, I am so sorry. I should have pointed out that I quoted what Fr. Daoud Lamey has said before, so that I don't take credit for what I didn't say. In any case, it is a good exercise for all of us to follow. God bless you all and pray for me …
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Dear all, I strongly agree with Cephas, and do strongly agree still with minagir. I don't see a contradiction between what minagir said on the verse he quoted and what cephas said on the one he quoted too, especially in cephas's last post. However, …
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Dear all, God bless you all. I read through this thread, and now I don't understand what the point vassilios and others are trying to make, as I am not aware of the Vatican II issue. I just would like to point out something: I don't think there is a…
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Dear aripsalin, I know you might have had enough already, but I just browsed through your thread now. I won't add much to what has already been said, but as being trained in psychiatry, and especially working in addiction psychiatry before (don't me…
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Dear all, I do agree with every thing that you all said in reply to bhm_c, but there is just one thing I would like to point out in relation to hizz_chiilld's comment. For all of us to be aware, there is not such sin that you are too embarrassed to …
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Dear John aka Anglian, Thank you for your reply. I really didn't mean to pass comments or judgments on anyone. I was just expressing my opinion about myself. Second, I haven't been to the monastery (or the new church) that you are referring to in St…
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Dear minagir, Thank you very much for the translation. I think I was looking for the word "melody" rather than the literal translation. God bless you and pray for me
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I even said Ireland, getting confused between Iceland's (not Ireland) and Norway
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Dear why, My understanding is that there is no general pattern. Every one will follow their own concept of these melismata, how they draw it, and what it means for them: I mean they memorise these in a certain way, that obviously would be unique and…
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Dear why, I think you are a bit confused about this. As you can read from other comments, no one teaches hazzat, as it doesn't have a standardised method of drawing up or teaching, as you can understand from the other posts, every one has their own …
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Dear why, "Remenkimi", means Egyptian; or literally belonging to Egypt. the word "Kimi" means Egypt, and remen is a prefix meaning belonging to; so you could say "acbi en remenkimi", which means Egyptian language, or Coptic, or simply "laoc en remen…
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Dear John aka anglian, You are exactly correct in what you said, and this gives me a sense of pride how you are praising the Orthodox Church. I really hope that every member of tasbeha.org (at least if not all Orthodox Christians; I am not asking fo…
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Dear all, I strongly agree (again) with orthodox11, and I really hope that we as Orthodox Christians (at least) know the value of standing up and doing prostrations all the time during the services, and the Masses (excepting the meetings of course) …