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+1...I don't know why people continue to see Pope Benjamin as some sort of inviter of Arabs. Egypt was already in turmoil as it is. Pope Benjamin's own brother was tortured and killed by Chalcedonian soldiers, then Persians came, then Muslims came…
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and I posed the question are both sides equally at fault. You seem to think so and I don’t think so. Hence why I introduced the details of the actual situation. But you misrepresented me in thinking that I believe the Church can have her cake and…
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To imitate means to allow the image/icon of God in you to be repainted by Christ. All human beings therefore have the potential to imitate Christ if they allow His grace to be in them. But they also requires assistance from fellow brothers and sis…
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First of all, who’s doing the bulldozing? You need to get your head out of foxnews and start seeing a much bigger picture here. It is the Israeli settlers that are doing the bulldozing, and Palestinians are being displaced. Palestinians are also …
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Well, there WAS a communion ban in the past under Pope Shenouda. This law is still VERBALLY in effect, but FUNCTIONALLY is not in effect because it’s not enforced. In other words, the Pope is saying, “it’s too soon to criticize my predecessor for …
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I know someone who HATED lamb meat. She could not even stand the smell. I told her that is what she SHOULD be eating during lent.
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“Sin is separation from God so how could a homosexual represent Jesus Christ when Jesus was not a homosexual?” Because we do not think a person represents Christ, but rather Christ represents us, and all of us fall short of the glory of God. But e…
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Amen!
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If the Church focuses on social issues and issues regarding injustice in the world, it inevitably gets involved in “politics”. It’s naive to think that the “incorruptible” does not paradoxically involve the corruptible. Otherwise, we become functi…
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I think the ban was only under Pope Shenouda. From what I understand, priests and laity were still able to visit Jerusalem until Pope Kyrillos with no problems. As for why Pope Tawadros did what he did, the answer is he had no choice in the matter…
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A Coptic prayer attributed to St. Severus of Antioch, let you say it early everyday: Master, Lord, God, the almighty, the Father of our Lord and our God and our Savior Jesus Christ, I beseech and ask Your great Goodness, the Lover of the humankind. …
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I have a hypothesis that by the way we chant "Khen PiKhristos Isous PenChois" in the liturgy that "Je Peniot" might have been chanted similarly to how we chant the gospel or the deacon response to the Confession (Amen Amen Amen, Tinahtee Tinahtee Ti…
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Only on Wednesdays, Fridays, Paramouns, Jonah's Fast, and Lent :P
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FWIW, I read online that the Armenian Church abstains from honey, but the Syriac Church like the Coptic Church does not.
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Well, if you hate it, maybe you should have it :-P The answer to your question is an answer of custom, not doctrine. So ItalianCoptic is probably correct in that the restrictions are understandable in an Egyptian context.
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You hit on an important point. Guidelines are different in different areas. We have Egyptian guidelines, which I try to follow personally. But in the end, the spirit of fasting is just as important as the literal. If you’re not doing what is ass…
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Because Christ wants you to be sweet.
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If I’m not mistaken, all of the NJ Coptic churches had extra security at the doors at the time
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but an auxiliary bishop still had a "diocese" (for a lack of a better term) in the ancient Church. Perhaps a weak example can be Gregory the Theologian who assisted his father's diocese of Nazienzen, but was bishop …
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When is Anba Angelos of Shubra coming to NJ? Is he here yet?
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This is a question I haven’t paid much attention to and really doesn’t make much of a difference. Whether Athanasius wrote it or not, he made sure the word “homoousios” was defended, rather than the heretical “homoiousios”. That one iota made all …
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We reject the Filioque because we believe the Father is the ultimate ETERNAL origin of both the Son and the Spirit. This is why He is called Father. Some Present-day Roman Catholics (RCs) have admitted that there might be some semantics in this is…
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One will out of two, a “theandric” will, or the divine will incarnate
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Lol...in other words, I ain’t touching Fresno until you make it officially my diocese. So in other words, anything below San Francisco. Sheesh! Just make all of Cali for His Eminence. There’s no real logic in these ecclesiastical divisions.
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So I played around with LA diocese website. It seems the 37th parallel line applies to that diocese as much as it does to the SUS diocese Just for fun: https://ibb.co/jqw6dG
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since we are on the subject of dioceses, why did H.H. Pope Shenouda make only Southern California a diocese and not all of Cali? And where is the dividing line for HE Metropolitan Serapion’s diocese?
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No, no specifics. Just that.
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He never took the Orthodox faith seriously. He enjoys role play as any other vagante bishop in the world.
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It means they divorced themselves from the Orthodox Church. They are no longer Orthodox or really a “church”. They are vagantes, and many of those who were in the British Orthodox left and joined either EO or Coptic churches. Very few men are left…
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:) congrats for both the UK and Romania (3obalna)