@mabsoota the tune is what Mlm. Ayad is using in the third recording on this page up until 9:02, although he doesn't finish the hymn in the long tune and switches to annual. The tune is sort of similar to the 1st part of the hymn "The 7 Tunes/Ways",…
I didn't expect this discussion to have a page number at the bottom of it!
Thank you all for your insights. I've been reading them and wanted to give the following responses:1- @minatasgeel and @EstephanosPhilipos brought up a critical point, that w…
This has been in my drafts for a year, and I thought I'd finally post it.
I think I can help with 2. However, there are like 1000 versions, so I'm going through the most common version, that is, up until the last stichon is no longer "Blessed is the…
@ItalianCoptic the Coptic Church has a.. complicated.. history with Philomena. Even Wikipedia has it wrong- the source cited for Oriental Orthodoxy recognizing her is actually an article against the recognition of her sainthood. Jojo has linked to i…
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@metouro, I say this with a spirit of love and humility: this approach is not how the discussion will be sett…
@mabsoots to me, “abouna beeter” sounds like someone I want to keep my priests away from :D
On a related note, I feel like it’s worth noting that we do sometimes say an English/Arabic name instead of the original Coptic- the Pope.
We rarely said “…
@Jojo_hanna from what I can tell, “the Ancient tune/the tune of Moses” refers to a tune that sounds a lot like the adam lobsh aka khen oushot. It’s most likely called the tune of Moses since the most popular (and maybe first) hymn with that tune is …
@ItalianCoptic southern US and the Virginia vicariate are doing the adam introduction to the verses of cymbals (amouini maren-ouwsht) and Rejoice O Mary/Ounof Emmo Maria/Efra7y ya Mariam
My old church used electric candles to comply with the lease and fire marshal rules (we were not allowed to have “roaming candles”, aka any live flame that wasn’t mostly stationary. We had to fight for the shoria to be an exception), and my current …
At my old church, a visiting bishop (I believe it was BG Anba Karas, but I don’t remember) reprimanded the congregation for not splitting the men and women between the north and south halves of the church, but he didn’t give an explanation. Now my n…
I dont believe a special hymn is chanted for a Bishop during the fast of the apostles.. the exception would be additional verses for the patriarch and bishop in Ontos Alythos.
Coptic Reader can be a bit.. overwhelming, so I understand if you're not comfortable using that (in case you don't know what it is, it's an all-in-one type Coptic Church app developed by the Southern Diocese of the USA). Agpeya.org is a bit outdated…
The Priesthood (Ordination) is a special, honored service. It comes with certain jobs and responsibilities, and among them is administering the sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation (Myron). The Priesthood and priestly hierarchy were set up by Chris…
Welcome! There are no stupid questions :)
Well, maybe one or two... :))Jokes aside, feel free to ask away! There is a tremendous amount of knowledge on this forum, and I'm sure you'll always either get an answer or a resource to help you find it. …
Brother @Kyrillos97 ,I do not have the opportunity to take a detailed read through the above responses, which I'm sure are much better than this, but here is the logical setup for the Economy of Salvation, and why your example (and the idea of penal…
The idea that the Sacrament of Communion nullifies God's law of nature and biology is, indeed, ignorant. As our brother @//pharoah123 and other physicians have said, we need to stay home. We are not Jehova's Witnesses, claiming that medicine is stup…
Romans 13:1-3:
Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those …
I believe this thread resurfaced at a very perfect time, as his feast was just days ago!
I believe you've found a saint who loves you very personally :)
@ophadece @minatasgeel ah, forgive me for the miscommunication- I meant a “reconstruction” of Agios Fee-etshop in GB coptic letters (as this is more accessible to the general congregation), which we could keep on the site as reference, as opposed to…
I think a collective effort could be put to reconstruct the OB from the transliteration, and then use that to put it in GB if desired by churches. After that process a rewriting process for the English is much easier.