God bless you, Coptic Strength. That is fantastic. Keep being a good example of the way we should all be living (including especially me), no matter how old we are or where we live. :)
Your grandmother! I agree with everyone's grandmother except for mine, because she said joining the church was "stupid". :o (Hence I don't tell her about what is going on my life very much.)
But I don't see what could be wrong by cooking fasting fo…
I agree, because I'm sure Egyptian grandmas are just like every other kind of grandma: They make you food and YOU EAT IT. Period. There is no disagreeing with grandma. She has the frying pan and knows how to use it... :o
Of course you can be self-confident and humble, though I don't think the term "self" confident is quite right, because the key is recognizing that it is God who gives you confidence (if GOD is with us, who can be against us?), as after all it is God…
Why would anything good happen by getting involved, especially with the political situation of Egypt and the wider region right now. Isn't that poverty of leadership, except for insane Islamic parties, the reason why all the "revolutions" and tumult…
Hey folks, let's not attack the messenger...
Thanksgiving, like most American holidays, is about eating and drinking too much. For some people, that also includes alcohol. I'm not a big fan of most U.S. holidays, since they're mostly about buying …
I think that particular way of explaining it (as well as the overall topic) has become confused to some extent since the advent heresies like Mormonism that teach something that could sound like Theosis in some ways, but is actually radically differ…
When I was in Oregon a few years ago, at the end of my being Roman Catholic but not sure what to do about that, I found this sermon with translation and fell in love immediately with HH. I still feel that way when I listen to it, or any of his other…
Unrepentant sinners as well, Cephas? How does this work? I take your point about the medicine of the Eucharist, but I do wonder if it is correct, strictly speaking (i.e., in terms of the teaching of the Church), to extend it to people who are not re…
Does HH really believe that the two churches are "two lungs"? I thought this was an RC expression about Eastern Catholics...it seems a little odd coming from as resolute a man as HH. Maybe he meant it in some other way.
And I agree with LiD about t…
Yeah, I've had a little bit of interaction with this guy, to defend HH and the Orthodox stance on baptism, and he really, really isn't worth the time. Just pray. Only God can remove prideful ignorance.
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Thank you for taking the time to explain your situation to us, GODlovesme. I think I think I can empathize with some of this, though without specifics it is hard to say too much. I definitely know the feeling of people not helping or understanding, …
Not that this is the be all and end all of official writings, but I couldn't find anything on orthodoxebooks.org, which is a collection various mostly Coptic books and pamphlets, searchable by subject. The only result when I searched for "stigmata" …
I would like to echo the good words of Joshuaa. To hear of another child of God suffering in pain grieves all of our souls. Please do not think that you cannot reach out to someone and share with them your struggles. I am sure everyone here wants to…
I can only speak to my own quite limited experience here in Albuquerque, not the church as a whole. I think there is probably some more that we could do, even though we are only a "Coptic Community" rather than a full-fledged church with weekly litu…
The interesting thing about hate-crime laws is that they are enacted to punish crimes committed with a certain motivation (racial, sexual, etc). Personally I don't think that things are always so cut and dry that we can say that such crimes shouldn'…
I take exception to CY86's idea that the church being "open" to homosexuality is to be compared to being open to non-Egyptians. I am a non-Egyptian in the church, and not only do I find this characterization of the church to be wildly at odds with …
Timothy, the explanation you've been given about Western Christians is essentially correct. I first heard it myself in the video "Introduction to the Eastern Catholic Churches", produced in 1992 by the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, hardly an …
Forgive me, Mikhail, by the absolution of the dead I am referring to this passage that my acquaintance had a problem with:
Our Church absolves the soul of the departed during the prayer. She absolves her from all the sins she committed while in the …
That's silly reasoning, Deacon. Generic medicines exist specifically for people who can't pay for the expensive kind. Taking something for free isn't the same as paying less because you can't afford to pay more.
I fail to see how it is irrelevant to the agenda you are very clearly pushing here, but as far as not posting anything more in this thread, I'll gladly do that!
Copticyouth86, have you ever posted here on Tasbeha on a subject other than homosexuality? I'm trying to remember, but I can't think of any such instance.
These "one issue" postings are really tired, particularly since your particular issue is deci…