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  • [quote author=simplycoptic link=topic=11331.msg136726#msg136726 date=1303964772] nope.......when it gets out of hands where there is NOTHING else to be done.....than separation becomes the best option. many decent people do that. they have made a mi…
  • [quote author=simplycoptic link=topic=11331.msg136718#msg136718 date=1303963860] what if the person takes drugs? Or is abusive? I think our church does have its exceptions in serious matters such as i mentioned above. [/quote] nope.......when it …
  • [quote author=TITL link=topic=11333.msg136702#msg136702 date=1303955146] Is it true he only listened to the hymn once before he memorized it? [/quote] many stories confirm that but not all the time.
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=11331.msg136696#msg136696 date=1303954444] Leaving the faith is considered an adultery as described in the Bible [/quote] hehe......you answered my question...
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=11331.msg136692#msg136692 date=1303953345] minatasgeel, I am not sure I understand your question. [/quote] a person who leaves the Church, not an orthodox person anymore....he is not under the Law--what will his s…
  • that was his gift and what made him the great cantor he is
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=11331.msg136683#msg136683 date=1303952091] Again no divorce except for adultery. [/quote] what of those who are not bound by the LAW that identifies "adultery"?!
  • [quote author=aiernovi link=topic=11208.msg136672#msg136672 date=1303949277] But for example, funerals prayed between Nativity and Circumcision or funerals prayed in the Holy Fifty are prayed in joyous tune...so why not joyous? [/quote] those becaus…
  • [quote author=baladoos link=topic=11320.msg136678#msg136678 date=1303950800] to be quite honest with you I don't think that Cantor Ibrahim ever recorded this album, do you mean the entry into the land of Egypt? I'm a big fan of Cantor Ibrahim & …
  • [quote author=aiernovi link=topic=11331.msg136679#msg136679 date=1303951169] It doesn't have to be in the first six months to be considered an annulment. If there was deception during the engagement period and it was found out after the marriage, it…
  • [quote author=baladoos link=topic=11331.msg136674#msg136674 date=1303950244] 3. If one of the of the partners tricked his partner, e.g. one of the partners had a criminal record but didn't say that before the marriage to the other partner, in this c…
  • everything that happens in that matter is private for those couple and his grace. the rule is the rule....even in bishops will do against it. 
  • [quote author=kmeka001 link=topic=11309.msg136625#msg136625 date=1303931784] [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=11309.msg136525#msg136525 date=1303747695] WOW!!!.... this is interesting. i can try to find the full coptic text (since in almost all …
  • [quote author=Unworthy1 link=topic=11319.msg136546#msg136546 date=1303781043] Does anyone chant Tin Anastasin at their church? [/quote] we said it a couple of times.
  • [quote author=George_Mina_Awad link=topic=11309.msg136526#msg136526 date=1303750132] Yeah, in the last part the Coptic text only says the very last bit: "Therefore we glorify Him, proclaiming and saying, “ 'Blessed are You O my Lord Jesus, for You h…
  • WOW!!!.... this is interesting. i can try to find the full coptic text (since in almost all the coptic commentaries only a couple of verses are shown to be chanted).
  • Responses can be found here: http://tasbeha.org/mp3/Hymns/Other_Occasions/Bright_Saturday/Ibrahim_Ayad/Part_3.html Fee-eteo-on = He who has an ear Man Lahu Ozonan = He who has an ear (in arabic)
  • I am sorry.....i gave up...i am not arguing this again. I have poster the Holy Synod's declaration of the rule...that is ENOUGH even if we think it's wrong....i am done.
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=11283.msg136429#msg136429 date=1303403450] Good points from all of you of course, but just sad for me to think a man-made declaration is not in anyway touchable, but palms, gospels, and whatever else can be touched.…
  • [quote author=anba bola link=topic=11285.msg136406#msg136406 date=1303334515] I agree 100% Zoxsasi. There is no reason to not be reading in the native language and still be reading in Coptic. I wasn't really clear on your situation, before. Sorry! …
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=11283.msg136392#msg136392 date=1303296440] Dear FR. Peter, I don't think anybody would be happy that agbeya prayers are missed out on some occasions either. Nor would anyone be happy to miss out saints' intercession…
  • [quote author=George_Mina_Awad link=topic=11283.msg136371#msg136371 date=1303268295] My church skips the part about the ascension for the 40 days following Easter....so this is incorrect? [/quote] as i said in reply #4: "A footnote in our Bright Sat…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=11283.msg136358#msg136358 date=1303251896] Very true but why did the Holy synod wake up all of a sudden after 1500 years to correct a wrong practice. Oujai [/quote] i didn't say it was wrong. It's a development to …
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=11283.msg136356#msg136356 date=1303251386] They should understand that we're focussing on a specific occasion. You can apply the same argument to everything including agios if a non-believer hears it in specific occ…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=11283.msg136353#msg136353 date=1303250034] How is modifying the creed messing with it? The saying applies in everything we're doing right now: "7afzeen mesh fahmeen" (= knowing without understanding). It's an emphas…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=11283.msg136350#msg136350 date=1303249182] Creed or hymns are parts of our faith, and they convey messages of what we learnt one way or another. Those things are modified and not deleted or skipped. Otherwise let's …
  • The best advice i would have is keep the Pascha Book on you at all times. Read and understand everything that happens in the service (maybe everything that is chanted and read also) before the service....meaning knowing everything that will be done …
  • well...he's a mu'allem and not a priest. they record alhan. the lamentations, hymnody-wise, as in coptic has the normal prophecies tune. in arabic, the tradition became that priests do it differnt in a more "dramatic" way.
  • [quote author=coptic333 link=topic=11287.msg136319#msg136319 date=1303242353] Hello, I am looking for the Lamentations of Jeremiah of the Great Friday by Ibrahim Ayad. If anybody knows where it is, I heard it once somewhere but I can't remember. Th…