https://tasbeha.org/community/categories/random-issues/p20/feed.rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:57:12 +0000 Random Issues - Tasbeha.org Community en-CA https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10642/today-s-versus-related-to-the-current-situation-in-egypt-please-add-yours Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:24:04 +0000 flexmd 10642@/community/discussions [center]وَحْيٌ مِنْ جِهَةِ مِصْرَ: هُوَذَا الرَّبُّ رَاكِبٌ عَلَى سَحَابَةٍ سَرِيعَةٍ وَقَادِمٌ إِلَى مِصْرَ، فَتَرْتَجِفُ أَوْثَانُ مِصْرَ مِنْ وَجْهِهِ، وَيَذُوبُ قَلْبُ مِصْرَ دَاخِلَهَا. 2وَأُهَيِّجُ مِصْرِيِّينَ عَلَى مِصْرِيِّينَ، فَيُحَارِبُونَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ أَخَاهُ وَكُلُّ وَاحِدٍ صَاحِبَهُ: مَدِينَةٌ [/center] [center]مَدِينَةً، وَمَمْلَكَةٌ مَمْلَكَةً. 3وَتُهْرَاقُ رُوحُ مِصْرَ دَاخِلَهَا، وَأُفْنِي مَشُورَتَهَا، فَيَسْأَلُونَ الأَوْثَانَ وَالْعَازِفِينَ وَأَصْحَابَ التَّوَابعِ وَالْعَرَّافِينَ. 4وَأُغْلِقُ عَلَى الْمِصْرِيِّينَ فِي يَدِ مَوْلًى قَاسٍ، فَيَتَسَلَّطُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَلِكٌ[/center] [center]عَزِيزٌ، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ[/center]

1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Please add your favorite versus related to the current situation in Egypt.

No comments please only versus]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10617/cnn-interview-with-radical-islamic-leader Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:09:25 +0000 CopticPete 10617@/community/discussions http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/02/01/exp.ps.imam.adjem.choudary.cnn
This video was actually played in the US on CNN with this guy claiming that Islamic Fundamentalism and Sharia law are the only way that would work for these countries. He is a straight up terrorist arguing with Eliot Spitzer that this is actually an islamic revolution and goes on to say that islam is slowly taking over Europe even.  It was pretty disturbing that this guy was talking with such clear terrorism on live american TV. Please share your thoughts.]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10606/superman-bam Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:02:35 +0000 AikotiEnsok 10606@/community/discussions
I miss you!!!!!!!  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10602/sacrifice-understanding-for-tradition-culture-tasbeha-in-coptic-or-eng Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:21:46 +0000 abrahamf 10602@/community/discussions
So am wondering whats the point of doing tasbeha entirely in coptic if half the people (maybe even more) do not understand the meaning of the words?

I don't think it even possible to learn the meaning of every coptic word, even then majority of the congregation would still not understand. Thus the we lose the spirituality of the words

I know we can not stop using some coptic in tasbeha because it is tradition, so what do we do sacrifice understanding  for tradition/culture?


PPFM]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10588/laptop Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:05:08 +0000 Cyril97 10588@/community/discussions I know that this is too random but anyways...
I need a brand new laptop, that is durable.
The laptop that I am writing this post from is completly screwed up.
Well, you know the screen's frame... it broken. So all you would see is
a screen taped to a cardboard box with a random keyboard hanging from it.
I need a new durable laptop ASAP.
Any suggestion?
My price range anything until around 700$ CDN not USD
Thanks for your help anyways,
Cyril]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10603/just-a-quick-question-about-ctv Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:37 +0000 10603@/community/discussions
maybe a strange question, but don't you guys notice that CTV have been broadcasting continually the same odas (liturgy)
for at least a week now? It's pretty weird, every time I open CTV I see the same liturgy, day and night  ???

Gb ]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10611/read-it-nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:28:06 +0000 10611@/community/discussions

I got this from several friends and lets say that st.mary did not really appear (which i think she did) Just read it, it is a really nice chapter ]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10523/youtube-vid Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:09:13 +0000 10523@/community/discussions https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10592/egyptian-protests-creating-publicity-for-the-coc Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:42:06 +0000 AikotiEnsok 10592@/community/discussions
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-local-egyptian-community-20110130,0,2469831.story

btw the baltimore sun is the big boy of newspapers around here... so this is a big deal!]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10586/muslim-hegab Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:14:30 +0000 copticuser20 10586@/community/discussions https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10552/egypt-protests Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:43:13 +0000 CopticSoldier 10552@/community/discussions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12283849

May the Lord protect His Church and His people.]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10549/the-agpeya-in-french Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:51:04 +0000 aidan 10549@/community/discussions
There must be someone who could send me a copy of the Agpeya in French. Doesn't matter if it has Coptic/Arabic as well.

There is one on Amazon but it has a man's name on it so it looks edited.

Also I don't want to download.

Yes, I have contacted several people in France but no joy.

Please assist

Thanks]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10530/just-curious-but Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:19:18 +0000 colugi 10530@/community/discussions https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10524/lacopts-site Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:58:22 +0000 peterfarrington 10524@/community/discussions
http://www.lacopts.org/subdeacon-peter-farrington

Father Peter]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10475/fr-peter Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:04:53 +0000 AikotiEnsok 10475@/community/discussions
Just out of curiosity....

What convinced you to convert to orthodoxy? How about oriental vs. eastern? What denomination were you before and what about it caused you to search for something new?

Once again, just curious....

Pray for me,

Chris]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10324/are-these-the-biblical-giants Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:06:16 +0000 Hezekiel 10324@/community/discussions
I do not know what to think about the contents of the attached clip,but I guess ,during the 2005 tsunami ,giant human skeletons had been uncovered as a result of the disastor,and people  began speaking of the biblical nephilims.Some photos are in the clip.

]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10514/confused Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:04:42 +0000 LHM 10514@/community/discussions https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10512/any-people-from-egypt Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:56:19 +0000 marmar357 10512@/community/discussions
Maybe it's a strange question, but are there any people on this forum from egypt??
Because I see the way of talking of most people here, belongs to western youth
and I am not sure if in egypt they think like people of Europe or America..
just out of curiosity.

Gb]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10507/saints-and-their-lives Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:42:18 +0000 10507@/community/discussions Who is your intercessor and what is his life story??? can every one post their intercessor and their life story so we could all get to know that saint much better and our knowledge becomes bigger when it comes to saints.
Ill start off by saing mine,
I got his stor off tasbeha.org

St.Karas the anachorite,
By, St.Bemwa
st. Bemwa explains, "I will teach you my brothers of what went on during one of these days." I heard a voice saying to me three times "YA BEMWA...YA BEMWA...YA BEMWA...", and it came to my attention that the voice was a heavenly voice from the sky and not familiar to me. Since not too many people called me by my name I raised my eyes towards heaven and said, "Speak O' Lord for your servant is listening", and the voice said to me "get up Bemwa and hurry speedily to the inner wilderness where you will meet St. Karas and take his blessing for he is very honorable to me more than anyone else for many are the times that he has tired himself for Me, and My peace will be with you."

So I left my church and headed out in the wilderness alone in great joy while I did not know the way, assured that the Lord which has commanded me will lead me. Three days passed, and I still traveled alone. On the fourth day I arrived at one of the caves and the entrance was closed with a great rock. I proceeded to the entrance and knocked as it is a habit of the brothers and said AGHABY (AGAPE) meaning LOVE and said bless me o saintly father. Instantly I heard a voice from the inside saying to me "it is good that you be here today Bemwa, priest of the church of the mountain of sheebhat that is worthy of the burial of the blessed St. Elarya, daughter of the great king Zenon." The door was opened for me and I entered and he kissed me and I kissed him, and we sat discussing God’s greatness and His glory. I said to him "My saintly father, is there another in this mountain that resembles you?". He stared at my face and sighed then said, "My beloved son there is in the inner wilderness a great saint that the world is not deserving of a single step of his feet, and he is St. Karas." Then I stood and asked, "then my father who are you?" He said to me, "I am Simon El Kallah, and it is to me this day sixty years without seeing the face of a man, and was blessed every Saturday with a loaf of bread placed on that stone which you see outside the cave."

After I was blessed by him I walked on in the wilderness three more days in prayer and praises until I reached another cave with it’s entrance closed. I knocked and said bless me my saintly father. He answered me saying, "It is well your arrival to us saint of God, St. Bemwa, who was deserving of anointing the body of St. Elarya daughter of king Zenon enter in peace." I entered and we sat speaking and I said to him "I was told that there is in the wilderness another saint that resembles you?" He stood, sighed and said to me "great is my... I inform you my father that in this wilderness is a great saint that his prayers stops the anger that descends from heaven, he is him that truly a partner of the angels." I asked him "And what is your name my father the saint?" He said " My name is Abbamoud El Kallah, and it has been to me in this wilderness seventy nine years living on these palms that yields dates, thanking Christ."

After he blessed me I left his dwelling with joy and peace and proceeded at night finding myself unable to see the road and unable to walk. After a while had passed I opened my eyes and found myself in front of a cave in a stone of a mountain, I proceeded to the entrance and knocked and said "AGHABY" and instantly a voice spoke to me from the inside saying, "It is well that you came today St. Bemwa, saint of god, who was worthy of anointing the body of St. Elarya daughter of king Zenon." So I entered the cave and stared at him for a long while, for he was of a strong presence and great humbleness. He was a person of great radiance and the grace of God reflected in his face, his eyes were very shiny, and he was of medium stature with a long beard with a few black hairs left in it. Wearing a simple galabia (gown), for he was very skinny with a light voice and a cane in his hand. He said, "You have came to me today and brought me with you death, for today a long while I have waited for you my beloved." I said to him "And what is your name my father the saint?" He said to me "My name is Karas." So I asked to him, "how many years have you been in this wilderness?" He said to me, "In fifty seven years I have not seen the face of a man, and I waited for you with all joy and eagerness." Then I dwelt with him for a day, at the end of the day our father Karas became sick with a great fever, and he would sigh and cry. He said "That which I have feared all my life has come to me today so Lord where do I hide from your face? How do I hide? Truly great is the fear of this hour...according to your mercy O' Lord and not according to my sins."

When the sun had rose the second day and St. Karas was laying in bed unable to move, a great light that surpasses the sun shined at the entrance of the cave, and entered a man with great radiance wearing white clothing bright as the sun. In his right hand a glowing cross. I was in that time sitting at the feet of St. Karas and was overcome with fear and awe. This radiant man proceeded towards St. Karas and placed the cross on his face, and spoke with him many words and gave us peace and departed. I proceeded to our father St. Karasto investigate who is this man with all this glory? So he said to me with all happiness"That is CHRIST THE LORD as it is His habit to come to me everyday to bless me, andconverse with me and departs." I said to him "My father the saint I desire for the Lord of grace to bless me." So he said to me "Before you leave this place you will see CHRIST THE LORDin His glory and He will bless you and talk with you also." When we had come to the seventh day of the month abib I found that St. Karas had raised his eyes to heaven while gushingwith tears and sighing deeply and said to me "Today a great pillar has fallen in rural Egypt, and the whole earth has lost a great saint that the whole world is not worthy of being his footstool. He is Anba Shenouda the Archimandrite and I have seen his blessed spirit ascending to the highest of the heaven in the praising of the angels, and I hear crying and wailing allover the land of rural Egypt, and the monks have gathered around the blessed body, being blessed by it as it radiates with light." When I heard that I kept in mind the remembrance of the passing away of Anba Shenouda the Archimandrite as the seventh of abib. On the following day or the eighth of abib the illness of our St. Karas grew stronger, and in the middle of that day a strong light appeared at the door of the cave and entered the Savior of the world and preceding Him the archangels Michael and Gabriel with a fleet of angels with six wings and the sounds of praises here and there with the smell of incense. I was seated at the feet of St. Karas, so the Lord whereof glory proceeded sat at thehead of St. Karas, who held our Savior’s right hand and said to him "For my sake O' my Lord and my God, bless him for he has come to me from a far place for the sake of this day." The Lord of glory looked to me and said, "My peace be with you bemwa, what you have seen andheard you say and write to be made for good use of it, but as for you karas, my beloved, every man that knows your story and makes remembrance of your name on earth, my peace shall be with him and i shall count him with the commemoration of the holy saints, and every man that offers wine or bread or incense or oil or candle in remembrance of your name i shall reward him multiples in the heavenly kingdom, and whoever feeds him who is hungry or gives drink to him who is thirsty or clothe him who is naked or takes in a stranger in your name i reward him multiples in my kingdom. and he who writes your holy story i will write his name in the book of life, and everyone who has mercy in your memory i will give him what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what has not ocuured to a man’s heart. and now my beloved karas i want you to ask me a favor to do for you before your passing on" So St. Karas said to him "my Lord I used the psalms day and night and I desired to seeDavid the Prophet while I’m in the flesh." And in a blink of an eye David came holding in his hand a harp and playing the psalm ‘this is the day which the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it.’ St. Karas said, "I want to hear all ten strings in one tune and the songs and praises together." So David moved his harp and said "precious before the lord is the soundof those who obey him." While David sang the psalms with the harp and his beautiful voice, the saint in great rejoice let his spirit leave his holy body to the bosom of our good Savior, Who took it, kissed it, and gave it to archangel Michael. Then I, Bemwa, leaped and kissed the bodyof St. Karas and anointed it, and the Lord of glory signaled to me to walk out. So I did and He walked out and with Him the angels with praises and prayers in front of the spirit of the saint and we left his body in the cave. The Lord placed his hands on the cave and it became as it never had an entrance, and all ascended to heaven in joy, and I remained alone in that position until that beautiful sight was gone from me. Then I closed my eyes from the strength of the light and glorious sight, when I opened them again I found myself in front of the cave of St. Abbamod El Kallah so I dwelt with him three days then I left and went to saint SimonEl Kallah and dwelt with him three days more. Then I left him and returned to mount sheehat where my church is. There I met all the brothers and told them the story of blessed St. Karasthe great and his words about the passing away of Anba Shenouda the Archimandrite. After five days a letter came to us from rural Egypt saying that the St. Anba Shenoudathe Archimandrite had passed away in peace on the same day as St. Karas saw him. The blessings of St. Mary, the mother of the true light, and the St. Anba Shenouda the Archimandrite and St. Karas be with us, and to our Lord, all glory forever amen.]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10434/australia-how-are-you Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:03:52 +0000 mabsoota 10434@/community/discussions first threats against the churches and now floods and fires?
i suppose your country is really big, so it's not happening all at once, but are you guys ok?
our prayers are with you.]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10473/today-is-courts-ruling-on-the-murders-of-nagi-hamadi Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:40:02 +0000 abrahamf 10473@/community/discussions

Egypt is a state of chaos my friends mum is in Shobra and she is saying that she cant even leave the house because of the people protesting on the streets. She is saying that even the muslims on the streets are joining with the christians and protesting. God has a purpose for everything, maybe this was his way of uniting SOME of the muslims and christians together.

On a different note my friends dad is an old priest in egypt, and he was telling us last night that he got a call from egypt saying that H.G  Anba Basanti (i think) was on his was back to the monastery, and as soon as he got out and the car was parked (in the garage), the car blew up. But they dont know yet whether it was a leakage from the car or an amateur bomb. Thank God no one was hurt.

Remember everyone in Egypt in your prayers  ]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10513/journal Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:32:35 +0000 orthodox4ever 10513@/community/discussions
The devil can not read our thoughts.Is it then a bad idea to keep a journal?

Thank you
Pray for me]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10491/monk-arrested-for-carrying-nun-s-bones-in-luggage Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:51:40 +0000 Zoxsasi 10491@/community/discussions
I was wondering what you thought of this story:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/8674429/monk-caught-with-nuns-skeleton-at-airport/

A monk was arrested in Greece (Athens) after they found a dead nun's bones in his luggage.

Is it right that we, as Orthodox Christians, keep these bones with us in boxes also?

Anyway, its a good thing he didn't travel with Egypt Air, or British Airways. They'd have made him pay for an extra seat.]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10488/raising-money-for-martyrs-families-pamphlet-of-poems Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:13:35 +0000 epchois_nai_nan 10488@/community/discussions
I've noticed that in the wake of the tragic events of the last few weeks, lots of our youth (including some members of the forum like GODLovesme) have been writing beautiful poems to express our feelings about the situation. I reckon that with the ones that I've seen and perhaps some help from others, we could get a nice collection together which could go into a pamphlet which we could sell at Churches to raise money for the martyrs' families and the wounded.

I really wouldn't know how to organise anything like that (printing and distribution etc.) but I think it might be a nice idea. It would be easy to collect the poems through the internet, and we could request more nice ones on forums and Facebook etc. - and I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to put them into a simple publishing program like Publisher or something. Printing and getting them out would be the hard part though.

Anybody have any ideas on whether or not this is practical, or worth doing if it is?

Just a thought, God bless
PFM]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10498/coptic-political-activist-1920-s-1950-s Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:29:05 +0000 JustinWilliams 10498@/community/discussions
So do any of you know of any Copts politically active during this time and who either wrote tracts or gave sermons/speeches?]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10500/coptic-blessing Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:30:11 +0000 JustinWilliams 10500@/community/discussions
For those who speak Arabic, would you be able to provide this statement in Arabic for me?]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/8701/urgent-guys Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:22:22 +0000 Christrules 8701@/community/discussions but there was a documentary of Terrorism in English i really need the name of it and a link to it ASAP because we are collecting resources at my church
THANK YOU ALL]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/8803/how-come-no-one-ever-writes-about-food Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:23:44 +0000 ilovesaintmark 8803@/community/discussions
Am I the only one interested in food?

Ya Ya, I know it is Lent.  I just finished a can of fava beans, but even that has technique.

Any thoughts, anyone?]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10457/can-anyone-confirm-this Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:55:36 +0000 copticuser20 10457@/community/discussions
Saint Mary appeared to  a monk (in some versions I heard it was Abouna Makary Younan and not a monk) and told him to prepare 200 (i heard 1000 from this one girl) coffins in 6 months because by the end of the 6 months, there will be 200 [1000] martyrs.

Can anyone confirm this?]]> https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/10448/free-tutorials-world-class-education Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:54:47 +0000 Hezekiel 10448@/community/discussions
I  hope some of you folks will find the attached link very useful:

It has 1800+ educational videos by topic,including:

-Math  
-Biology
-Chemistry
-Physics
-Organic Chemistry
-Cosmology and Astronomy
-Humanities & Other
-Test Prep :SAT Math ,GMAT,CAHSEE, IIT JEE,etc

khanacademy]]>