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That makes sense. The same logic can be for Abouna Seraphim as well. Serving the Coptic Churches in those three states gave both the people and the Pope confidence to make him an official diocesan bishop.
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None of them will be general bishops?
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:D
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Watani is a reasonably reliable site on Coptic news. So I see no problem with congratulating His Grace Bishop Angaelos for his upcoming elevation.
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I’m weary of repeating what Rem said because I sound like a broken record. :P
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So from what I understand now, Abouna Seraphim is going to be a diocesan Bishop, not General. And the ordination will take place on November 11, along with Bishop Karas being ordained for above mentioned states. Someone will also be ordained as a …
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It refers to partaking of the uncreated life that is present in the Godhead, the "fullness" of divine life so to speak, the partaking of the divine Holy Spirit. It starts here on earth in our baptism into the Church, and then goes on eternally unto…
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It was asked several times publicly to some bishops “will NJ be a diocese” and the answer publicly was “NJ will be split, one into a diocese and one for the Pope.” Bishop Karas said this publicly as well as Bishop Abraam of California in the presen…
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Everything in VA except that Church you were mentioning is under his guidance. So yea, unfortunately, the Fairfax parish isn’t considered part of the VA churches Bishop Michael is overseeing, and perhaps what happened in Fairfax is a good example o…
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Someone sent me a Facebook post that says Abouna Seraphim will be “general bishop” over the Midwest. So I’m not sure what type of authority he will have. Sounds similar to Bishop Michael of Virginia
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If His Holiness wants a North American Vatican, I think he should just choose a parish, or have a cathedral to choose from. But the rest of NJ needs a diocesan Bishop. With that said, Bishop Angelos does have the reputation in Northern Shoubra of …
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At first I was going to make a sarcastic comment, but when you said Bishop Angelos of Cairo might be general bishop for NJ, you got me excited. If true, I am willing to wait it out. I am an admirer of this bishop and I would love to see that he wo…
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Funny story: when I was a young boy, a particular Sunday school servant taught us about rites and traditions in the Coptic Church. He explained to us that if a priest or a bishop out of humility tries to pull his hand away, you hold on to his hand…
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+1 As St. Paul says, “work out your own salvation in fear and trembling.” To add to that, there’s a general sense that Christ is always the One who seeks the lost. You may lose salvation, but in doing so, you become lost in the process. The good…
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Because I was born in this Church, and I believe Christ is present in this Church. But I don’t think that excludes that Christ is present in the other too. We are both Orthodox, and that’s what matters.
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The Holy Synod decides, but in the meantime, the Holy Synod may need good research on these issues. Also, for this subject, I hope we let cooler heads prevail... I don't think anyone is arguing about whether one agrees or not with the canon, just si…
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Lol! I love it!
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The title of this thread made me think there was a Coptic spoof of “Blackish”
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He took what is ours and gave us what us His :)
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Usually, glorification in my experience is not done unless it’s the feast of St. Mary, our patron saint, or a particularly popular saint that people generally place high importance to. But after Pioik on regular days, we usually just chant one of t…
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I’m a little ambivalent about co-redemptrix in the way that it was explained by some. Using the analogy by Daniel Kyrillos, it seems Catholics are saying she is the "capsule" around the medicine, rather than a smaller medicine. In the Coptic Church…
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We do believe in the Assumption, but our Church has not made it a dogma. Dogma touches upon the Trinity, our relationship with the Trinity, and the Church and sacraments. Basically, the Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed. So the Creed does mention t…
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It could be argued the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary violates number 3, because they are unnecessary to the faith, at least in the system of soteriology in the Orthodox Church.
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This year, one can make a nice contemplation concerning the spiritual correlation of Christ being in the womb of the Theotokos and Christ being in the womb of the earth.
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We celebrate both feasts, and both are indentified as major feasts in the Coptic Church, and in a very predictable fashion. Since we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity on January 7 (Kiahk 29), then we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation 9 mont…
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You’re right...our own Pope can make mistakes. No one is infallible, even the bishops and the Pope. We trust the Holy Spirit to mysteriously guide the Orthodox Church through it even when mistakes occur, to bring us back in the right path. Histor…
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EOs generally do have the same view, although there is conflict among EOs what the exact role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) really is. Some EOs accuse (yes accuse, and sometimes very harshly) the EP of trying to impose something similar to th…
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Yes, and also to show us the way of true Christian living, only through the "boasting" in the Cross, and nothing else, to bear the Cross in our lives in absolute humility and acceptance of suffering.
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Christ as a warrior against death did not choose a comfortable death, but the most uncomfortable, most shameful, most painful form of death, to show that even such debasing death He destroys, and even the depths of Hades He destroys. St. John Chrys…
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No, He did not die to satisfy the wrath of God. This is a Protestant teaching. It is written "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son". It is NOT written "For God was so despised the world that He gave His only begotten Son"…