[quote author=christ_rose link=topic=10538.msg128259#msg128259 date=1296013947]
This may seem harsh but if you can tell me that proestants are not christian and that they are not going to heaven than you need to evaluate your relationship with our l…
Well technically they are not Coptic, they just represent Coptic icons...
Coptic art displays a mix of native Egyptian and Hellenistic influences.... the paintings you posted were american style painting that represent coptic figures like the saint…
[quote author=GeorgeT link=topic=10538.msg128228#msg128228 date=1296004679]
Danny has convinced me,
I decided to ask my dad on this matter and he agrees with danny, clapping is ok. If it is used to praise god. my opinions changed to if you are prais…
[quote author=christ_rose link=topic=10538.msg128221#msg128221 date=1296003487]
AGAIN WE SHOULDNT CHANGE OUT CHURCH we need to change our mentalities that only we are getting to heaven. we need to chagne the iea that other people are satanic like tt…
My friend was there on kiahk, and the first thing he told me when he came back was "dude the church is so cool, but the icons are weird... they're like, not coptic at all"
But it is just personal taste really... didn't mean to insult you :D
And I …
[quote author=copticuser20 link=topic=10539.msg128205#msg128205 date=1296001145]
i didnt mean it was a law. i was just saying that they are fine to use. they are coming out of monasteries, not some random new york artist's garage.
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I think …
[quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=10538.msg128210#msg128210 date=1296002427]
I have not read this whole thread, yet, but I believe the gentleman needs to change the title: "I feel like an Orthodox in my church among Protestants."
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Ha…
Danny,
You said we need a "revival for the youth"
Well the church has survived for over two thousand years with the same traditions, why should some kids who do not care enough about the church to open a book make us change our traditions! I unde…
Ioness: I am afraid it is spreading to the liturgy :( The deacons will say Psalm 150, and Pioik but then they have free reign to sing what ever, and most of the songs are english songs that I have never heard of, but they just sound not coptic to me…
THANK YOU!
My exact words to the servant was
"I refuse to partake in this form of protestant worship"... i think he thinks I was kidding.... I hope he sees this post!
[quote author=coptic boy777 link=topic=10515.msg127803#msg127803 date=1295710166]
Does it seem like the seraphim choir recordings sound off and are less spiritual?... I really hope it doesn't become a standard in all U.S. churches.
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Yea I a…
No it is sung Sha3nini for the most part
and every wedding I prayed we said this in either arabic or english because we couldn't find a recording any where :(
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[quote author=Remnkemi link=topic=10105.msg127582#msg127582 date=1295540698]
HCOC has it on their Liturgy of the Word.
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with all do respect, i hated that record…
I think the answer is a lot simpler than you guys are making it..... if you look at all the priests and bishops of the world what is the one thing that they all have in common?
Give up?
BEARDS!
That's why women aren't allowed to be in the clergy
look the congregation has more than enough books with the translation on them, and the projector (most churches) has a translation. So "doing it for the congregation" is not an excuse to say this hymn in anything other than coptic...
understand? I'm sorry but the congregation has more than enough resources available to help them understand the hymn... and if a deacon is chanting this long hymn because HE wants to understand it then he probably shouldn't be chanting it in the fir…
Orthodox: conforming with established or accepted standards, as in religion, behaviour, or attitude.
First it started with little things like "kire leison" to "lord have mercy"
and after years we are now saying hymns like ic pateer in english???
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[quote author=AikotiEnsok link=topic=10404.msg126646#msg126646 date=1294501322]
21 posts and he's gone.... are we really that bad?? haha
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2.... lol