AntoniousNIkolas
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Hi Cyril. Are you saying by this meme that the material wealth of our Coptic communities in the West is having a negative impact on our Church spiritually speaking?
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Let me be perfectly clear: although (like Ray) I've been villainized and even characterized as a "zealot" (I deserve this and more for my sins) I have no intention of surrendering the Church to the hyenas. I have every intention of staying and figh…
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If we incorporate protestant practice and hymns into the liturgy then it ceases to be divine. Amen. If I were serving in a Liturgy and they started singing "Our God is an Awesome God" or some other pop song during the Holy Communion I would take of…
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I feel as if I have no other choice but to leave and go to an EO church, the Copts seem intent on shooting themselves and I don't want to be a part of that. Sometimes I really feel the same way. If the Copts end up definitively accepting Protestan…
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Some excellent posts here, especially Rem and Ray's respective masterpieces. On the subject of how this stuff crept in and ruined the Catholic Church please read The Banished Heart: The Origins of Heteropraxis in the Catholic Church http://www.amaz…
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Good points, Ioannes.
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Ioannes. I sent you a PM. Ifahmy, singing Protestant songs during our Liturgy - especially as the faithful process up to receive the Body of Our Lord - in highly inappropriate. Ioannes is not being extremist in the least.
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I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble understanding your question. Are you saying you want to join an Assyrian Church but there are none near you? Are you asking what we think of their tradition? Or are you asking about our tradition?
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Great picks, Mina. I'd also like to add the Unseen Warfare by Lorenzo Scupoli edited by St. Nikodemus of the Holy Mountain.
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Beginning to Pray by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, for sure.http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Pray-Anthony-Bloom/dp/0809115093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412958159&sr=8-1&keywords=beginning+to+pray+bloom Taught By God by Harry Boosalis is also…
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Hi Cyril, It's wonderful that large cathedrals are being built, but honestly, if anything, I think they're signs of increased Coptic immigration. Can we honestly say that large cathedrals are being built in North America to serve an evangelized con…
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I agree with you. Our first mission is the salvation of our souls and bodies and to lead others into that salvation with us. "Attain the Spirit of Peace and a thousand around you will be saved". Mission is about living our Orthodoxy, not about hel…
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Glory to God. Father Peter and the British Orthodox Church have been a huge blessing to our communion. They should serve as our primary example for mission in the English-speaking world and the West in general. Thanks for this, Cyril.
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I don't have time to make a long post at the moment, but here are some articles that might help you in preparing your flock to reject the heresy of the "rapture". http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/04/rapture-indisputable-christian-heresy.html h…
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I appreciate that Cyril. I really do, and I'll be praying for you and all of our youth. This is our (the Church's) fault. Have you ever heard the saying "A fence at the top of a cliff is better than a hospital at the bottom"? Well, we never set …
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The problem as I now understand it is that as an Evangelical Protestant, I had no developed “philosophy of music.” I viewed music as a fundamentally neutral medium, used only to accompany the text of a song and attract the listener. Having seen the …
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One last thing, please read this article by a young scholar who used to be a Protestant and even write "praise & worship" music but then converted to Orthodoxy. It is beautiful. An Orthodox Philosophy of Music by Daniel Merchant– Posted on Sept…
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Also concerning materials: Is what this video showing somehow "impoverished" mission work just because Protestants are managing it? If it were Abounas or our Church doing the same it would be considered Orthodox Mission for many. Handing out Bibl…
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Cyril YOU ARE REALLY NOT BEING FAIR! All of the questions you are asking in this post have already been answered but you ignore the answers. You just continue to repeat yourself. It's no way to carry on a dialogue. Mabsoota gave you a beautiful …
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Remnkemi already adequately addressed most of what you've written here Cyril, and I'd encourage you to carefully consider his reply, but since you addressed your post to me, please allow me to reply: AntoniousNIkolas wasn't that second video when Sa…
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These are very nice videos. It is good that our Patriarchs agree with the idea of mission. The question becomes, do we share their definition of what that term means. People love to post this video of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III speaking for mi…
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I think I'm getting the hang of it now, guys. Thanks.
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No problem. Sorry for the difficulty before, brother. I'm a noob. :)
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P.S. - Mina & Everyone. I went back and reformatted my original posts in this thread to make them easier to read. Thanks for your patience. I hope that this will be of benefit to those interested in this discussion.
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Hi Cyril. A Protestant model of mission that is certainly contrary to Orthodox life is viewing the Church as a product to be marketed to the people, thinking that we have to make church "cool" and "trendy" and "give the people what they want". Thi…
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Very beautiful observations indeed, Rem. Thank you.
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Hey, Mina. The problem is that I wanted to respond to all that was written in the previous posts, but due to the new format was unable to quote blocks of texts as I did on the BB board, so I cut 'n' pasted into a word document and typed my answe…
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Well, the use of the Coptic alphabet predates the Roman occupation and dates back to Hellenistic times. What's the problem?
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Thanks, Rem. Very kind of you. I hope you'll forgive my posts in the Mission thread which look very choppy and strange, and that the content will be a useful contribution to the discussion.
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4. With regard to whether God cares how we praise Him, I cannot presume to speak on God's behalf. But I can say that we are called to worship "in Spirit and Truth," as we read in Scripture; that we are called to partake of the Body and Blood of C…