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what's important is your relationship with God, not the minutes fasting. but i do look at the clock when i am working nights, as i spend a lot of the night awake (and eating!)
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yea! the great fast is coming :) this is what we call it in arabic. i have also been researching and it seems like the food customs are a bit different in the eastern and oriental orthodox churches. so i would love it if you could tell me more abo…
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hmm, i think it's about 0.1% protestants that actually believe this, and only the ones that watch dodgy internet videos. i didn't meet anyone who takes it seriously (i know a lot of protestants). i will be very disappointed if the world ends then a…
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awesome post! very deep and also beautiful. :) chris, don't leave, you are a valuable member here and i look forward to your posts. :)
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yes, it is posted on the main page here now as well. :)
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yes, i like these posts. i found i was much more comfortable with myself (not hating myself, not thinking i was amazing either) when i stopped thinking about myself so much. instead, when i was worrying about myself or my spiritual life i started to…
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get off line then! ;) seriously, though, may God help you :) remember, in university (college), it's important only to pass. the exams are very hard, so don't bust a gut trying to get 80%! but if u do bust a gut, u know where to come...
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to complete the recipe you need the liturgy and several doses of repentance!
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this is what you need: an area or room set aside just for making qurban. a priest or deacon. lots of memorised psalms. special tools for marking the qurban. an oven used for nothing else. flour, water and yeast (NO SALT!). prayers and the grace of …
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dearest to Christ, john s2000, may God give you all you need and more. if i ever end up working in egypt, i will give u a call. may God bless you very much.
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thanks, this is so useful! :) does anyone know what is the origin of the coptic word 'rom' for man? i think it's the same in quite a few different languages. eg the romany (gypsy) word for man is also 'rom'.
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really? about 5 people were telling me about it! but we were in a noisy cafe so maybe i didn't hear them right! sorry! i'm sure your version is better, you seem to know 1 or 2 coptic words... ;)
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the assyrian church of the east did many great things, and they were probably the first missionaries in china. however many of them followed the heresy of a guy called nestorius, who basically said that Jesus our Lord and Saviour was a man who becam…
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ahlan wa sahlan! (you can learn a little bit of arabic here!) welcome. :)
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my friend the monk is back, and our friends back in egypt are worried about the situation there. we are praying that the new leadership will not be worse than the last. may God give us peace and may we use this situation to show our trust in God and…
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one of the things that worries protestants about the orthodox church is that joining the church is always personalised. what i mean is, if you go to a protestant church (for eg.) and ask to join, they'll hand you a leaflet about the church's beliefs…
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yalla, calm down, it's in God's hands. may He have mercy on us. i also pray that the monk i know can get back home, i pray God uses him to calm people as he is still delayed in his return.
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maybe he is serious? not everyone has good friends to ask these questions. i think we should assume everyone is genuine at first. also i don't think this guy has criticized protestants. but i agree our answers are not great :( may God guide him :)
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we are praying lots.
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hey, if u get someone with the 'wrong' colour hair, don't worry, it will eventually go grey or fall out ;) seriously though, first you should ask God if it's His will for you to marry. then work hard on your spiritual life so you're a really good …
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i agree with father peter, i posted my views here: http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php/topic,10598.msg130368.html#msg130368 i agree that it's very important we pray sincerely, not just repeating words, however, we also need to check out …
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u know what, EVERY church has a specific set of beliefs, even if they pretend they don't. i honestly believed when i was a teenager that the church i was in then had no denomination. maybe some new age believers and bahais have no set beliefs, they …
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haha zoxsasi, good thing some men like skinny women, or we would get worried reading posts like that! ;)
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remember to send us a link to pages from your novel! if it's good we'll buy it ;)
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i agree. scholars disagree on whether the romans crucified victims with a loincloth (a narrow strip of cloth wrapped around the waist and covering the bottom, much like a mini-skirt!) which the people of the time wore under their long robes as under…
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not all orthodox churches use the lefafa (not sure what it's called in english either!) after communion, in others, the deacon watches closely to check nothing drops. but if you don't use it in a coptic church, the priest may assume you are not orth…
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emperor constantine wanted the head of the church to be in his city and the patriarch to be subject to him. not that he was biased in any way of course... strangely, the patriarch of rome wanted to be in charge too. of course, he wasn't biased eithe…
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cyril97, go see your FOC, maybe he meant you were doing ok, and know how to progress in your spiritual life so you can confess less often. you could ask him. like, if you shout at someone on monday, ignore someone on tuesday and laugh at someone on …
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sometimes doing small things (correcting the star counts) has a big impact! thanks for that, father peter :) by the way father peter is one of the people responsible for my happy state as he posted me loads of stuff about orthodoxy back before i wa…
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u know, i think good grammar is optional. ;)