@qawe is correct in that the correct order is Pope>Metropolitan>Bishop who Wears eskeem>bishop of diocese>rest of bishops in order of ordained. This was HG Bishop Youseff's response when I asked him prior to HG Bishop David's enthronemen…
I agree with what you wrote, but I would like to make one comment. Although the archdiocese is canonical, I still believe the one in NJ is failing. I say this because before His Grace Bishop David was enthroned he gave a few lectures regarding his l…
@Remnkemi
"When I actually speak to American born converts, they consistently tell me they don't want services changed into English."
Do they not want it changed because they enjoy praying in coptic or because they like the way it sounds, even wh…
Prostrations and fasting do go hand and hand as @ophadece said. Example: We prostrate during the daytime litanies during pascha but we do not prostrate in the evening. Why? Because we are fasting(without food or water) in the morning
Whenever HG Abba Makarios comes, the Ethiopian bishop, he makes at least three ladies wait to be last to take communion and one cry if they are wearing lipstick
It's comical because you would think after the first or second visit, they would learn
I very much agree with what everyone has said so far. Also, I don't really think it's a problem for him to say women should learn from the modesty of Muslims. We can learn from the evangelism of Jehovah's witnesses, going from door to door, or from …
Remnkemi, what is your opinion on the British Orthodox Church? Why can they not have the same thing in America? Just want to see your reasons and stuff
Thank you Remnkemi.
But Cyril, I sort of disagree with your point. Just because they still do things in the coptic tradition does not add or take away to their Orthodoxy. Someone please correct me if im wrong but although they may use the coptic t…
Remnkemi, you make many good points. Just to see your opinion, what if one of these missionary churches were to open and their priest actually preached orthodox sermons? Do you think it would be successful in terms of bringing people to the true fai…
The bishops mentioned above are all diocese bishops. Before that, if they did meet, I'm sure they included bishop Michael but as neither him nor bishop David had diocese's, they were just general meetings or something, not meetings trying to unify N…
That makes sense but I feel like a lot of lectures I/we hear can appease any religion? If it can appease most religions, is that bad/non-orthodox? Also, I think his audience was actually all christian and all orthodox, it was Pan-orthodox.
What if …
Mina can you give some examples of what you mean by his sermons sound Protestant? Not that I'm questioning I just don't know how to decipher these things
People are always going to criticize, doesn't mean its wrong. I also haven't been but my church went to DC for a retreat and visited STSA and they thought it was great. They don't leave anything out of the liturgy, they just do it in English. Also a…
I mean missionary as in non culturally barriered lol I do believe every church is a missionary church, and actually I feel as many churches are very successful in their outreach and missionary missions(at least in the North East US). And when I thin…
Pope Shenouda gave it to all the heads of the monasteries back in the day, I'm not sure which are still around now and even if they are, they're very old so probably aren't traveling as much
The bishop of the diocese's name should be mentioned after the pope directly before any other bishops, unless there is a metropolitan or Bishop who wears the Eskeem as Bishop Sarabamoun of St. Pishoy monastery. In this case after the pope, you menti…
@mabsoota,
Of course you are correct that every church is a missionary church, in the words of His Grace Bishop Youseff, SUS. But these "missionary churches" (they do not call themselves missionary churches) are just churches without the cultural b…
Lol I know I was just messing. We don't do any of the things you mentioned above but still I must add, it doesn't feel like our liturgy is missing anything. Not that I wouldn't love to say and do all those awesome things, its just that since I have …
This thread went on an interesting tangent but what about screens that do not block iconography(such as TV's that do not move?) Does everyone here agree that that is ok?