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  • [quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=10493.msg127412#msg127412 date=1295479944] Why Minagir? Cheaper? Do they give rewards points? I think you should change your name back to Minagir.  I'm not jiving with this new name. [/quote] hehe....i thin…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=10495.msg127408#msg127408 date=1295477142] Dear all, I need your opinions before I start discussing what I think would be right or wrong linguistically speaking. Why do we say Yasous bekhrestos 'bshara emebnoudiafsh…
  • [quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10491.msg127398#msg127398 date=1295470463] Many of our bishops carry and transport with them the relics of saints. [/quote] of CANONIZED saints....not any bones.....also that box that you see in their hands doesn't h…
  • you're a little late....I HAVE MY COPY!!!  ;D Guys, I recommend you order it from the Monastery Bookstore....
  • [quote author=Kiro7 link=topic=10484.msg127317#msg127317 date=1295383036] Does anyone have a good recording of the singary psalm for epiphany? [/quote] http://tasbeha.org/mp3/Hymns/Major_Feasts_of_the_Lord/Epiphany/Ibrahim_Ayad.html
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg127315#msg127315 date=1295381726] On the CopticHeritage.org website, under the Rite of the Epiphany, it says: "In the Vespers and Prime Offering of Incense, the Verses of the Cymbals and the Doxolog…
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg127313#msg127313 date=1295380661] It appears as if the new Service book is based off Al Bair's translated Rite at CopticHeritage.org, but according to an earlier post referencing p. 298 of his book, …
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=10439.msg127261#msg127261 date=1295302068] Mina That's not an Adam hymn, so it can't be fitted on bewik. Oujai [/quote] Oh...so now we consider adam and watos hymns. That's why I am saying again that it is not. It …
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg127251#msg127251 date=1295294687] I think the recording you're talking about is at CopticHymns.net but it's still not working. Are you guys sure it's to Pi-oik? The verses seem quite wordy and just t…
  • [quote author=Truthsetsfree link=topic=10473.msg127224#msg127224 date=1295250828] [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10473.msg127206#msg127206 date=1295241615] i actually think sometimes IT IS the best sentence....if a person doesn't repent from …
  • [quote author=jydeacon link=topic=10439.msg127216#msg127216 date=1295245553] [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10439.msg127204#msg127204 date=1295241215] [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg127198#msg127198 date=1295240202] Thanks f…
  • [quote author=Meena_Ameen link=topic=10473.msg127194#msg127194 date=1295239474] [quote author=Abanoub. link=topic=10473.msg127190#msg127190 date=1295234333] I think the death sentence is not harsh enough, they should lock up the guy in a maximum sec…
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10474.msg127196#msg127196 date=1295240103] Ah, my apologies, you are in fact quite right, as usual! [/quote] don't say that.....many books have what you say. it's just the priests of my church have other sou…
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg127198#msg127198 date=1295240202] Thanks for all the responses! Unfortunately, the CopticHymns.net website is still not serving media. Does anyone know to what tune the communion hymn is sung? http:…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=10474.msg127168#msg127168 date=1295208956] Dear Kiro7, I guess the correct practice is saying three "o iordanou wabtestas", but yes I did hear some teachings of what Michael said but not sure about that... DEar Mich…
  • [quote author=gregorytheSinner link=topic=10469.msg127137#msg127137 date=1295156495] Is the Synaxarium considered a Holy Book, which would make it perfect, or is subject to historical errors? [/quote] it is subject to historical errors and generally…
  • [quote author=copticuser20 link=topic=10467.msg127120#msg127120 date=1295152052] After Easter, we have a 50 day period of no fasting at all and it is all in joyful tune during services. Why dont we have a period like this after Christmas? [/quote] w…
  • [quote author=copticuser20 link=topic=10468.msg127121#msg127121 date=1295152401] So i am not really sure what this is called but i call it the "coti emon" response.  We usually say "je aki ak coti emon" on annual days and for christmas we say avmacf…
  • ok. I am sorry......what i am trying to get is what the way we pronounce coptic in most of our churches today is not strictly "Greco-bohairic" 
  • [quote author=epchois_nai_nan link=topic=10450.msg127071#msg127071 date=1295050075] Lol, yes - GB=Greco-Bohairic which is the pronunciation used by the Church today in all of our hymns - its a system which gives all Coptic letters the same sounds as…
  • [quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=10451.msg127053#msg127053 date=1295041286] So would you do like the Miss Universe Pageant and have rating in categories, average, and then come up with the best Liturgy? Here are some categories: 1.  Voice (…
  • I don't think "voice" is everything.....and my choice shows that. Sometimes the "feel" that a priest has when he prays makes everything. You have people who have great voices as Abouna Metias Nasr of HICS....and you also have people who are as spir…
  • [quote author=copticuser20 link=topic=10451.msg126993#msg126993 date=1294969571] [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10451.msg126992#msg126992 date=1294969414] Anba Andrawis. He prayed the liturgy during the time of the departure of Pope Kerrelos V…
  • Anba Andrawis. He prayed the liturgy during the time of the departure of Pope Kerrelos VI.
  • [quote author=jackcrown link=topic=10426.msg126928#msg126928 date=1294924722] January 6 is the feast of Epiphany. Epiphany is the traditional end of Christmas season in the Western Church, traditionally the day when people put away the Christmas orn…
  • [right]القرار: نُلُتمُ الأمجادَ في دنيا ودين وهزأتُم بالطُغاة الملحدين (لم تموتوا أيها الأبطال بل) 2 قد سكنتُم في سماءِ الخالدين. لم يمت مَنْ قَدَمَ الروحَ على، مذبح الحق جريئا لا يلين. لم يمت كل غريب ههنا، مر بالدنيا مرور الزائرين. لم يمت مَنْ صار…
  • It is a poem for the Pope named "Qasedat Abtal"=poem of Champions/Heros. He wrote it a long time ago for all the martyrs of the Church...in the video they many parts of the original poem....i'll have most of it soon.
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg126857#msg126857 date=1294787762] Additionally, the Service Book states that we should say "aki" even on Paramouns, and that's what we did for the Nativity Paramoun, although saying "acmasf" seemed m…
  • [quote author=Michael Boutros link=topic=10439.msg126843#msg126843 date=1294780266] Hello! I know it's a bit early but I'm already confused about what to say on this day due to different things said by different sources. First of all, Tasbeha.org an…
  • [quote author=cop link=topic=10440.msg126850#msg126850 date=1294783900] I know this is a bit random, and no one probably knows the answer but if you watch the christmas eve liturgy, as all the dignitaries are greeting the pope adel emam greets the p…