Why do we have so many hymns with weird mistakes that we brush under the carpet for the sake of routine?? We do the same thing with O Kyrios (a misnomer for Agios Yistin) which makes 0 sense as most people know it.
Speaking of that, I know a church…
@Remnkemi The 3rd is pretty normal to me:
A- past tensepetqelqolf- the Slaughtered One
nau erof- to be seen by you in past tense, ie, was seen by you
sop nemwten- is in your midst / is with youasf hijen pi`ctauroc- was crucified upon the cross
The w…
News flash:This was all pointless. What does it matter what used to happen or what someone did a long time ago? I have never had a serious break in teaching because someone was trying to teach me OB over the (to me, more logical) GB.My generation le…
@ONEGOD I have a thread about the St. Abanoub doxology, and our dear brother @bashandy has given a Coptic script for one which I (tried to) translate into English in said thread. Another doxology is as follows (English and Coptic)
You are a wise ch…
@bashandy if I may have a swing at the translation:
What shall it profit a manIf he gains the whole worldand loses his soul.Oh the futility of this world!
The Saint Lord Abanoubthe celibate martyrconfessed ChristBefore the lawless ones
He gave his …
@Ophadece yes, I'd think it'd be (Ere pi`cmou `nte (`m)piMarturouc nim for martyrs, `mpeniwt `ndikewc for Male saints, `nte ]agia for females. Is that correct?
@Melos in my church, since we are small, we often pass through the Nave to get to other places throughout the church. Also, we hold Sunday Schools in the Nave since we do not have enough small rooms. Generally, we keep our shoes on when we are not p…
I can answer the second question: we should. Most parishes of Coptic churches are simply lazy and dont want to take off their shoes. However, when I went to a convent in Georgia, the nuns and H.G. Anba Yousef told us to take off our shoes upon enter…
I haven't read this entire thread, but Peter from the YouTube channel "Learn Coptic Hymns" did a lesson Agios Yistin (O Kirios shouldn't be its name since thats the ending of Shere Theotoke Parthene) and he gives 2 "forms"- the known one (that has w…
@Aba I'm sure there are Arabic books on the topic. Also, maybe some of the Cantors can put out some books in series or collections ("The Hymns of ) since they know the most about these hymns
@danny I agree 10000% about the teaching of hymns being a side act. More people now are memorizing and not learning. Its like knowing the alphabet in English and how to read words but never knowing what the words mean.
I often have to teach young ki…
@minatasgeel so the special hymns at the end... are those for saints in general? Or for specific saints like Fa Nitenh and Tiestoli are for Archangel Michael?
@dg920 that really helped. Thank you so much.
Now I have to wonder: where did the vohems for all of these Martyr hymns go? Since theyre specific to the hymn we can't generalize it to say it's the tune of Pachois or anok nim or whatever. Are they lo…
As I'm from the church of St. Abanoub, i can provide insight to this.
1- For the verses of the cymbals, either Piagios Kiri (as in sayyed/master) Apanoub or Apanoub piRemNehis (al-Nehisi) are fine.
2- There are 2 doxologies- a partial one is floatin…
I'm not sure about the requirements but I can give you the short answer for the process.
For two days before the selection day, a liturgy will be held asking for the Holy Spirit to bless the future pope and help the church. On the selection day (day…
Reading this legitimately made me laugh.
Don't worry about hypotheticals- if it gets to a point where every single bishop and priest dies and we are stuck on a desertes island, we probably won't be getting married. We'd probably be screaming our he…
The Southern U.S. "Service of the Deacon" book by H.G Anba Youssef (which I just got a hard copy of myself) says to include Mar Ignatius and the head of Eritrea.. I'm not sure if that's relevant, but I just spent a blessed week at the convent of St.…