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  • Father Peter Bless I've only managed 1500 words of my conversion story. I don't think I shall match 6000. How are the other converts doing? Aidan
  • I'm surprised Fr Peter hasn't corrected you Zoxasi but as far as I'm aware monophysite refers to the one DIVINE nature of Christ, not the human one. Although Copts aren'y monophysites JWs and Muslims most certainly aren't. They are closer to Arius. …
  • Recently I was listening to a sermon by a Coptic priest that I thought was memorable except that it was so deep I couldn't remember all his points and I didn't have anything to write with. So, later, I sent him a text and he replied with the main po…
  • That wasn't very clear of me! Oil and wine permitted Saturday and Sunday and fish at the Annunciation.
    in Why 55 days? Comment by aidan March 2011
  • Do the Coptic fasters have any respite on Saturdays and Sundays. The Eastern Orthodox are permitted oil and wine and fish on the Annunciation but otherwise its straight oil less veganism
    in Why 55 days? Comment by aidan March 2011
  • That's the kind of thing a small group of people could do if they prayed about it ...
  • I guess you must have thought of directing your appeal to other places such as the orthodoxchristianity.net although it has a different 'flavour' to this site. It also has a much larger following...
  • Bless, Father Have subscribed and donated. If not too many join we donaters then I can increase it. You are the only Orthodox priest who 'walks the walk' so I am happy to support your mission in whatever way I can. I long for a climate in this …
  • [quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10751.msg131123#msg131123 date=1298116381] I must admit to being surprised that Copts fast with olive oil. I imagine that this is the oil that EO do not use. Aidan, are you taught no oils at all, or no olive o…
    in Fasting Comment by aidan February 2011
  • Mabsoota I actually don't lose any weight during fasting periods (well, not enough). In one way this is good since I could have the added incentive of slimming when I fast. The Lenten Triodion gives the rules of fasting and long and intimidating t…
    in Fasting Comment by aidan February 2011
  • [quote author=aidan link=topic=10722.msg130762#msg130762 date=1297864882] I enjoyed that very much. I, too, play the recorder. Where can I get the music? Hopefully with westerrn notation? God bless you [/quote] ...and please don't miss this :-[
  • I enjoyed that very much. I, too, play the recorder. Where can I get the music? Hopefully with westerrn notation? God bless you
  • However, even if He was crucified naked we, in the spirit of Noah's sons and for decency's sake, should not depict Him so.
  • An interesting question. Apparently Michaelangelo carved a statue of the naked crucified Christ. It stood in a Roman church for years but something happened. I would dread to contemplate the Crucified naked but maybe I need to consider that possib…
  • All women used to cover their heads. In my lifetime (and admittedly I am fairly ancient) an older woman would not be seen out of doors without a hat or scarf. So covering up is fairly traditional with many cultures. Why Muslim women should nearly u…
  • Bless Father You may also be interested in overtures made by the Russians at about the same time. http://eocf.free.fr/copte_russe.htm
  • My experience of Gruber's book came at a crucial time. I was reading it whilst a catechumen with the Russian church and I kind of wondered if I was going in the right direction. I presented a copy to the English EO monk who was instructing me. The…
    in Fr. Peter Comment by aidan January 2011
  • [quote author=dfan8803 link=topic=10348.msg127145#msg127145 date=1295171285] Hi aidan, Glad to hear you are enjoying the book! As I mentioned in the book, my scope really was only Jesus' attitude to the law, and not the early Christian reaction t…
  • Having no wish to take attention away from Fr Peter's testimony but wishing to add something I find interesting, I too had my first living experience with the Plymouth Brethren (although I seem to remember they were not partial to being called that)…
    in Fr. Peter Comment by aidan January 2011
  • Hi! I'm savouring the book so I can't yet comment. One question before I close. Our Saviour, as you make it clear, kept the Jewish law. He was a proper Jew. Why then did Jewish dietary laws vanish so quickly during the early Christian centuries…
  • Since the fasting rules seem widely different between the various Orthodox churches, PLEASE can someone point to somewhere where the rules are written down because I would like to follow them. In my church there are so many permitted exceptions to …
  • Hey, what happened to Theophany or don't you have that in the COC ?
  • I  recommend Quiet Time (schedule and programme) from St Mark's, Washington http://www.stmarkdc.org/uploads/Quiet Time Guide 2011.pdf
  • I may not have been paying enough attention, but which number does he talk about why he went to the Coptic Orthodox church? You remember he had the experience with the Theotokos in a Serbian church. Thanks
  • [quote author=Hos Erof link=topic=10348.msg126055#msg126055 date=1293986498] Is it just me or is the book out of stop from amazon.com...? Does anyone have an idea how much the shipping will cost to Europe? [/quote] I got mine from the publishers, Th…
  • I have just received the book from the USA and read the first chapter. Thoroughly recommended.
  • [quote author=geomike link=topic=10303.msg125864#msg125864 date=1293782061] Same here, i want to help them by money, but i am afraid they are the kind of people that spend it on harmful things like cigarettes and alchohol. [/quote] You may be inter…
    in Church Comment by aidan December 2010
  • Dear Father This sounds like a great enterprise. I don't think you said whether it was the AV or the NKJV you were learning. Please tell. Also, as a family man do you ever watch tv programmes that the family, but maybe not you ,wish to watch but …
  • Dear Father Can you clarify what Gibbon has to say  http://www.anastasis.org.uk/gibbon_trisagion.htm Sounds dreadful
    in Trisagion Comment by aidan December 2010
  • I don't know whether this is a helpful picture but can we picture a 'monophysite' scale with Nestorius at one end and Eutyches at the other. The Chalcedonians are nearer the Nestorian end and the OO close but nearer the Eutychian end. Pardon if th…
    in Trisagion Comment by aidan December 2010