The Tenderness of God, The Tenderness of the Poor
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/parables/the_tenderness_of_god_the_tenderness_of_the_poor
Part of the challenge and the beauty of living Orthodox mission is to learn to accept the tendernes…
"The oppositional theologizing that had dominated Orthodox discourse in the twentieth century is...a sign of weakness rather than strength - in Plato's words, a 'failing of the wing' (Plato, Phaedrus, 248c; cf. Plotinus, Enneads, 4.8.1). A self-conf…
Pope St. Cyril III ibn-Louqlouq
"Instructions to the bearer of the Christian convert*. (Lit, Ar.: hamil al-mutanassir. The term hamil is most often used in conjunction with pregnancy; Cyril Ibn Laqlaq’s usage of the term here may have been to farthe…
Lord have mercy.
PiKhristos Aftonf.
"Following Christ in a Violent World," presented to the Orthodox Student Association of Finland in 2003. Source: http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2005/01/09/following-christ-in-a-violent-world/
Here's an interesting observation by Daniel Keating on St Leo of Rome and St Cyril of Alexandria:
"Like Cyril, Leo teaches that it is the mind guided by faith that recognizes a true distinction of natures in the one Christ. The reality of the Inca…
There's a curious observation made my Dr Hany Takla in a paper entitled "The Coptic Christian Heritage: History, Faith and Culture":
"Liturgical texts that have survived are scarce and mostly in the form of prayers and bilingual Sahidic– Greek lec…
Lessons from a Space
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/parables/lessons_from_a_space
Deacon Pawel, Lessons from a space.
Usually parables of community are about a person or a persons but today I'd like to speak not about a person as such but ab…
Church as a community
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/parables/church_as_a_community
The Asceticism of the Open Door
Last week, FatherDeacon Pawel shared at our weekly clergy meeting the story of a Church that was celebrating its 105th annive…
Decision of the Coptic and Greek Language Committee
Formed from the Hymns Committee of
The Rites Committee of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Regarding the used pronunciation of Coptic texts and
Greek words and texts in hymns, praises, …
All ecumenical talks are in a perpetual state of "going well"
I really hope there is more ground level cooperation and interaction. What often happens even in universities is that each jurisdiction also sets up their own "cultural" student associati…
Why don't we just make Bol Evol or Golgotha in Plagal 4th or Tune 3 and drop our current descriptions of Adam/Batos hymns (and of course, drop the white tonias too)?
That's a rather good idea. Let's raise the liturgical bar and make things beautifu…
Loose, remit, and forgive us, O God, our iniquities which we have committed willingly and which we have committed unwillingly, which we have committed knowingly and which we have committed unknowingly; the hidden and the manifest, O Lord, remit for …
"Orthodox theology is not only a form of intellectual reflection. It is also experience: it arises from experience and it pushes one on to have the experience which it expresses. Orthodox theology is a theology of glory.
It is a development of th…
Orthodox teaching of Theosis from a Biblical perspective:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140622134007/http://orthodoxtheosis.wordpress.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20140722194040/http://www.writeurl.com/publish/16fhp5fwqmzo4k69ssxl
Here's an interesting blog post referencing Fr Athanasius Farag:
http://mirhom.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-biblical-model-for-mission-fr.html
A biblical model for mission: Fr. Athanasius Farag
The following is based on the teaching of Fr. Athanasius F…
Q: How does Coptic theology approach and explain the subject of 'theosis'? Chalcedonians use the Palamite terms 'essence' and 'energy': man participates in God's energies but not in His essence.
A: Theosis or Deification means "union with God" take…
Anba Youssef has used it and explicitly stated that we are called to take part in theosis.
Katanikhoros could you share the links or references where Sayedna has mentioned this.
There is one quote I'm aware of that mentions deification of humanity …
Was doing some more research on theosis in the modern Coptic Orthodox Church and again it seems that most priests and servants will encounter the teaching of Theosis identified as a controversial or banned topic.
In the Arabic book called New Here…