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  • sometimes they have little loops attached to the stole and theres a button on the top of the shoulder to which it attaches, problem solved.
  • I think originally there was a uniform practice amongst all Apostolic sees and which were later enforced in the councils but eventually due to economia of necessity, things slowly changed. While this may be so, we should ensure that as Fr. Peter say…
  • [quote author=Copticandproud link=topic=12807.msg150786#msg150786 date=1326942985] Ohh, man sa3idis are the best people in the whole wide world. NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!!! P.S I donot take this matter lightly so donot dare reason with me lol [/quote] …
  • [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=12807.msg150772#msg150772 date=1326938121] [quote author=Timothym link=topic=12807.msg150770#msg150770 date=1326937893] hmm, I don't think it was originally but I'll have to check. Also its neat how you wrote pat…
  • [quote author=Ioannes link=topic=12797.msg150773#msg150773 date=1326938412] [quote author=Timothym link=topic=12797.msg150769#msg150769 date=1326937568] [quote author=imikhail link=topic=12797.msg150386#msg150386 date=1326478632] Protestantism is fu…
  • hmm, I don't think it was originally but I'll have to check. Also its neat how you wrote patrasheel..its originally from Greek petrikhili which means 'around the neck' so it makes sense its with a p.
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=12797.msg150386#msg150386 date=1326478632] Protestantism is full of heresies that our Coptic youths must be aware of so they won't fall in its snares. [/i] [/quote] At our church's youth meetings from sk to the uni…
  • [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=12807.msg150754#msg150754 date=1326932028] [quote author=peter_saad link=topic=12807.msg150724#msg150724 date=1326918917] I remember watching of the popes Q&As and he said there has to be at least one deacon,…
  • ISLM, ditto all the way bro! For some reason we seem to feel that as Copts if there are just enough deacons to cover the liturgy  then thats not good enough. No we need soo many deacons that they can't all fit on the chorus and they are all crowded…
  • [quote author=Remnkemi link=topic=12781.msg150613#msg150613 date=1326832204] Ophadece and imikhail, What you fail to acknowledge is that OB is just as much a reconstructed dialect as GB.  If GB was created erroneously, so was OB. Either way, I only…
  • If you read the Gospels well, you will see that Jesus healed those who desired to be healed and who believed that they could be healed. Remember Nazareth where He would not do any miracles because He was unwelcome there and there was no faith there …
  • [quote author=geomike link=topic=12802.msg150640#msg150640 date=1326848193] This is not how all Catholic churches are. We shouldn't see this news article then assume that all Catholic priests are immoral. The issue is that the Catholic priests aren'…
  • Because its like a family. I know my father and my grandfather, and my father knew my father and my grand father and my great grand father. All along the line, they keep  on passing stories of what happened to them when they were young. One brother …
  • Remenki, point well taken. The Syriac liturgy affirms your point as there is a point at the beginning of the anaphora (I believe) which the deacon says "stomen kalos stomen meta fovou, proskhomen" and the deacons pronounce it very differently than i…
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=12781.msg150585#msg150585 date=1326803786] [quote author=Timothym link=topic=12781.msg150568#msg150568 date=1326775617] I didn't real all the 5 pages of responses, but what is it so hard to get that this response (e…
  • I didn't real all the 5 pages of responses, but what is it so hard to get that this response (epi prosevkhi statheete) is not Coptic, it is Greek so it should be pronounced as such. There is no 'e' in front of prosevkhi...and the greek word for pray…
  • at one liturgy years ago I attended, I had to do both the psaltos parts and the altar service...it was interesting chanting 'tai shouri' from within the altar while holding the cross and gospel (beshara) going around the altar.
  • I (being a male) still don't understand what is so wrong with a female leading the congregational responses and hymns of the liturgy. Most 'deacons' in the church are not even deacons so this has nothing to do with the clergy and we should not even …
  • I've always found it interesting how we view and treat the mens and women's role in our (Coptic Orthodox) church and how other Orthodox churches do. In the Syriac Orthodox church, St. Ephrem the Syrian would rehearse all-female choirs to chant the …
  • Woow, the world coptic video was hillarrious in my opinion but maybe thats just me because I like silly things like these. Still, my only criticism is that the again, the tonia is a liturgical vestment, and two, why couldn't the video be named "worl…
  • I forgot to mention that I visited the Greek Orthodox parish nearby today as they were celebrating St. Basil's liturgy in occasion of the feast of Theophany (il ghtas-baptism of Christ) and during communion, 2 ladies were holding their children with…
  • Someone help me out here...I think it mentions somewhere in the Didache/Apostolic Traditions or by St. Augustine (?) that we ought to receive Communion with our right hand as a throne for our left hand (back in the times when communion was placed in…
  • In the past, one priest gave me excellent advice which stuck with me: "Be hard on yourself and become aware of God's presence" While its not very deep, its straight to the point. Just as you'd be hard on your little brother if you knew that he was s…
  • [quote author=qawe link=topic=12772.msg149966#msg149966 date=1325764734] [quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=12772.msg149960#msg149960 date=1325743551] A tonia is not his to give anyone. A tonia is given to us by God through the Church. Using …
  • maybe that priest insisted on it in such a way that was not the nicest, but at the same time I do see the value of the symbolism behind the right hand. The right hand is the symbol of light and uprightness and strength etc. If you saw your child doi…
  • Thanks a lot for the info Fr. Peter! I think you are the only Coptic priest (of whom I know of) that knows anything on this subject as there is a sea of information but often from Eastern Orthodox sources and there seems so little translated into en…
  • I've read that originally the sign of the cross was a secret hand signal (IC XC-the same fingering which you find on many icons of Christ) between early Christians to identify each other during persecution. Later it was done only on the forehead and…
  • I think that whenever stuff like this happens we should bring it tO the medias attention just like we want our voices heard when stuff in Egypt happens. The martyrs of Uganda are no less precious in Gods sight. The 2010 Christmas shootings in Egypt …
  • for real?