[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5820.msg78157#msg78157 date=1192009624]
Dear all,
what do you think about the use of projectors in church service?"
As for me, I find this practice completely unsuitable. My points of objection are:
1- the practice …
[quote author=Stavro link=topic=5818.msg78107#msg78107 date=1191905721]
what ever Sadat did was his own choise. those islamic groups where the ones who killed him, as some ppl believe. what he ment to do is to take those ppl and make out of them tru…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78099#msg78099 date=1191903000]
But Mina, how about if both the parents and priest talk to the child? Wouldn't you think that maybe the message might click in the child's head, whoever it may be???
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[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78097#msg78097 date=1191901233]
John,
My point is that not all of the Epsaltoses are like that. I never said that there weren't any, I am just saying that that was stereotypical. I definitely agree with you on…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78093#msg78093 date=1191898140]
Well, Mina, John, and Severus,
That is definitely way too stereotypical. First, Mina and John, I was raised by my parents to love the Church. I am pretty sure anybody who has a …
[quote author=Severus link=topic=5806.msg78089#msg78089 date=1191896717]
Why don't we just teach the children Coptic? They can learn it. It isn't that hard...half of the letters are familiar to them anyway!
I think that the Sunday school system sho…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=5806.msg78085#msg78085 date=1191896096]
Yeah, we need the Coptic language to move on or else we are going to need another revival for the Coptic language. Also, Mina, many parents just like to see that their kids are …
[quote author=copticcross3 link=topic=5806.msg78081#msg78081 date=1191894619]
yeah, we have one in my church too.
well, the children can read, Can't they?
they can translate it on their own, i don't feel why coptic and arabic are cut out so much, ju…
[quote author=copticcross3 link=topic=5806.msg78075#msg78075 date=1191894166]
okay..well a mix would be dandy, btu we don't even have that...
like i know in the staes (my church at least) up till a month or so ago...we had 80% of the mass english ! …
[quote author=copticcross3 link=topic=5806.msg78067#msg78067 date=1191893396]
yeah, true, BUT
1) theres the little translation book thing
2) it would motivate(almost force) people to learn more coptic, cuz right now, there really arent many people t…
[quote author=Stavro link=topic=5818.msg78052#msg78052 date=1191884427]
It might be part of the "balancing act" that was started by the late President Sadat, who covered the crimes of islamic groups by advocating the same image about the Coptic Chur…
you wouldn't want to say this about Adel Emam. especially him. because he's one of those guys who hate other poeple attcking other's faith. including his own. he makes fun of many muslims and i guys he does to ours to. he's not really against us....…
[quote author=andrew8345 link=topic=5813.msg77981#msg77981 date=1191634688]
Can some one please help me find some Bible Readings in English? I can only seem to find them in arabic and coptic.
Thank You and God Bless.
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what do u mean.....
[quote author=bballdude23 link=topic=5812.msg77977#msg77977 date=1191624091]
Dear anyone of the administrators,
I put up [coptic]}soury[/coptic], but I want to make the "Congregation Responses > Tee-shory" a link to the real [coptic]}soury[/copti…
[quote author=LifeinChrist link=topic=5806.msg77932#msg77932 date=1191528265]
just my opinion: we have changed things so that WE the copts can be sound and happy while praying fro example the translation of a coptic liturgy to arabic, and in the 70s…
[quote author=Amoussa01 link=topic=5806.msg77901#msg77901 date=1191473369]
Mina, i am well aware of the lyrics in "Wa Habibi," but that was not the point. The point that i was trying to make is that, spiritual songs have no place in the service of o…
[quote author=karas7 link=topic=5806.msg77897#msg77897 date=1191463360]
hi everyone
i love the coptic hymns and i love singing it i dentify with the fact that it has its own unique code of sprituality and rite that needs to be preserved perhaps that…
[quote author=andrew8345 link=topic=5806.msg77893#msg77893 date=1191461089]
On the topic of "modernizing Hymns" I have myself debated about it. And by modernizing I look at it as chanting the hymns in English instead of Coptic. If the church were to…
[quote author=Amoussa01 link=topic=5806.msg77889#msg77889 date=1191459346]
Well first of all, this hymn is not part of our rites or (taqs). So therefore it should not interfere with our services. Also, HG bishop Serapion banned its use. there is abs…
[quote author=Anba Bishoy link=topic=5806.msg77887#msg77887 date=1191456834]
Ok actually about this an epideacon in my churhc said and argued that during Great Friday we do not sin for example Wa Habibi and especially Wa Habibi what do you guys thin…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5809.msg77874#msg77874 date=1191432429]
Dear all,
So what about those who form the group Remenkimi. I am not sure if one or some of them are members of tasbeha.org, but as I used to exchange e-mails with that group …
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5809.msg77869#msg77869 date=1191424492]
Dear all,
Where can I find the text for the hymn "ictermagi", and what is wrong with the text? I read through Coptichymns.net that this hymn is not very legitimate (or that wa…
[quote author=Hos Erof link=topic=5802.msg77739#msg77739 date=1191264779]
Hi people,
I'd like to ask if there's anyone who can help me find coptic borders, things as you find them in coptic Psalmody books and Liturgy books etc. It's most needed for…
[quote author=Paulh link=topic=56.msg77728#msg77728 date=1191250680]
yes mina, I have only found it online and in one of the EXTREMELY old Deacon Service books. I'll show it to you sometime.
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wow....long time no taby this time i know which…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5794.msg77671#msg77671 date=1191137106]
Dear minagir,
It was not nice of you to call me "playing games". I don't know why you thought so. Anyway, I go by Cantor Farag Abd El Messih's book and it says that in the Fea…
[quote author=PopeKyrillos link=topic=5794.msg77643#msg77643 date=1191080450]
In the book by H.G. Bishop Serapion, and H.G. Bishop Youseff, it says that Ti-shori is aid on all fasting days (except the great fast and the fast of the ninevites), satur…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5794.msg77642#msg77642 date=1191078027]
Dear minagir,
I appreciate all what you are saying and the reasons you are giving for believing it is "taishori" as on a festive day. However, I think that "tishori" is specif…
[quote author=bballdude23 link=topic=5794.msg77624#msg77624 date=1191015601]
You know what. Actually you all are wrong because there is not any book that states this because the Feast of the Cross is not always on a fasting day and therefore you are…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=5794.msg77605#msg77605 date=1190972469]
Dear minagir,
I disagree about the "taishori" bit. In Cantor Farag Abd El Messih's Deacon Service book, it is stated that you sing Tishori and not Taishori in the days of the …