[quote author=Κηφᾶς link=topic=11737.msg142259#msg142259 date=1312051542]
What does this even mean?
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something like this: We offer all of these prayers in union with Jesus in each Mass celebrated throughout the world, throughout all time. Am…
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=11737.msg142184#msg142184 date=1311958155]
What about it? All that "hearts of Jesus and Mary" stuff is heretical nonsense, based on post-great schism (AD 1054) developments in Latin monasteries, with the actual cult…
[quote author=geomike link=topic=11876.msg141816#msg141816 date=1311459643]
[quote author=henrik.hank link=topic=11876.msg141804#msg141804 date=1311452258]
I've heard that 90 % of all the coptic monks are vegetarians?
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This is true, this is…
[quote author=Κηφᾶς link=topic=11875.msg141646#msg141646 date=1311049502]
+ Irini nem ehmot,
The Orthodox Church has no interest in a council outside of her communion.
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ok. why doesn't the coptic church have modern ecumenical councils?
http://www.chartreux.org/maisons/Transfiguration/carthusian_leaflet.pdf
look at this. This seem to be the western version of the Coptic Hermitage. What do you Coptic people say about this?
[quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=11793.msg140933#msg140933 date=1309886336]
There are no orders in the Coptic Church, per se, as in the Roman Catholic identification.
What imikhail alludes to is more "systems" of administration and life disc…
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=11766.msg140730#msg140730 date=1309647052]
It is important to remember/realize that the positions we now refer to as "Oriental Orthodox" or "Catholic" (really more clearly stated as "non-Chalcedonian" and "Chalcedon…
what made the copts become oriental orthodoxes when the western christians chose catholicism? Did culture, geography or something else have anything to do with this?
[quote author=Κηφᾶς link=topic=11737.msg140372#msg140372 date=1309248333]
+ Irini nem ehmot,
No.
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so you don't pray for specific people at Divine Liturgy? I have heard that you actually do.
[quote author=imikhail link=topic=11658.msg140175#msg140175 date=1308926535]
No we do not.
The devotion to the sacred heart and the precious blood are heresies that the Orthodox do not accept.
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Why heresy?
I'm not really good at the view on pshychology in the oriental tradition but here in Sweden we have a man who is a (i think a lutheran priest) and a professor in psychology of religion and he is great http://www.owewikstrom.se/?p=415
this may be som…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=11515.msg138815#msg138815 date=1306880035]
Just because we CAN get angry doesn't mean we should. Indeed we should prayerfully strive against anger.
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but how to do it?
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=11515.msg138739#msg138739 date=1306772076]
I am not sure what you mean. Why would people want to express anger?
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Because I am a human who can get angry.
[quote author=anba bola link=topic=11428.msg137984#msg137984 date=1305495937]
Please, guys. Relax, you don't know what Henrik.Hank's motives are. Please do not assume his motives are wrong, but rather that you are taking him the wrong way. Right now…
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=11438.msg137925#msg137925 date=1305408849]
God created the world and everything in it in 6 days. Come back to this thread in 5 days time and see what you think then. ::)
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six human days or six God days?
[quote author=Abanoub737 link=topic=11432.msg137899#msg137899 date=1305390663]
There is probably a lot of reasons for that. The major reason is that Egypt is where Coptic Christianity started and most common, you find way less Coptic Christians in E…
[quote author=Unworthy1 link=topic=11438.msg137918#msg137918 date=1305401510]
Why are you guys all over-reacting?! He asked a question, he never said God was lazy. He is in search of answers about God and wants to understand Him.
Has no one here, a…
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=11437.msg137913#msg137913 date=1305395392]
Maybe he means "catholic and Orthodox" in the way that Orthodox Christians mean it when they say their church is the catholic church? I don't know. I'm trying to give him t…
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[quote author=ebnyasoo3 link=topic=11358.msg136986#msg136986 date=1304225514]
Did you all hear about the beatification of the late pope John Paul II.
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Beatificatio…
[quote author=ebnyasoo3 link=topic=11358.msg136986#msg136986 date=1304225514]
Hello all,
Did you all hear about the beatification of the late pope John Paul II.
Do you know what is that and how do we, as Orthodox, feel about it?
Thanks
Ebnyasoo3
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[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=11428.msg137850#msg137850 date=1305319066]
I feel like the way the question is phrased in the OP is biased to receive the kinds of answers that would confirm the questioner's preexisting ideas of Coptic people. I'm …