If someone from New York can confirm, most churches have "bookstores" that sell cymbals and other coptic items. If not, you can order them
http://www.stmosesbookstore.org/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ilvm_fly_showroom_mall.tpl&am…
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Speculation 2: Somewhere here on earth preserved by God until their final revelation to all mankind.
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Sirach 49:14 says that Enoch was taken up from the earth. They p…
This isn't the one I was looking for but its another nice one. http://blip.tv/saintmary/tamgeed-4040999. Khen efran starts around minute 20, then Wa Salaam and Esmae but I think Esmaee is in English.
I apologize for sounding ignorant but I want to understand.
Let's take Evlogite. It means "Praise Him, glorify Him, and exalt Him, His mercy is forever. For He is praised, glorified, and exalted above the ages, and His mercy is forever." It isn't "…
But why only from the Offertory until Communion do we wear tonias? Why doesn't everyone including the priest wear liturgical clothes from vespers since the liturgy starts then?
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i dont know why some churches dont say it, but i know the reason it was meant to be there.
i learned from copticheritage.org that this 4th verse is said so that after…
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The faragiya is a cassock; a clerical robe. The Sidriya is a symbol of the priest's service and authority. It is the forward movement of the deacon's stole to paral…
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What does the word Asbasmos mean & why do we have a watos & adam asabsmos in the sam…
I was walking and and Abouna was talking to someone while he was censing the church but he was moving the censer while talking to the guy. I went to kiss his hand and the shoria hits my knee really hard, flips over and ashes and a flaming charcoal f…
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I was given an analogy.
You cannot see darkness or coldness. Darkness is the absence of li…
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Why do we want to abandon Coptic? This is our heritage that we need to preserve.
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I love coptic and I also get very annoyed when people don't use coptic or convert …
I was given an analogy.
You cannot see darkness or coldness. Darkness is the absence of light. Coldness is the absence of heat. You cannot see darkness, you just don't see light. You cannot feel coldness, you just don't feel heat.
The same is wit…
Someone explained it to me like this:
In your house, if someone curses in your living room, isn't it the same as cursing in your bathroom or kitchen? You don't chew gum in front of a King, neither do you do it in the King's palace.
My church is huge. Deacon meetings do not work. And he does have a talent but what is the point if you are doing everything out of pride? I don't want to judge him but I don't want this to continue. I don't want my future Sunday School children/serv…
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Does anyone have a recording of Tengousht (after the creed) for a Wedding? I love it and I …
Scholars and historians have tried to disprove many things to break our religion. This is just one to add to it.
But in the end, whether Saint Paul wrote it or not...WHO CARES? Does the result make our religion fake? It doesn't matter like half th…