I'm not sure a Romanos' hymns will be accepted to be put into the liturgy. We have looked at our hymnology and liturgy as a fixed prayer and that any change or modern day addition would be seen as an innovation and against orthodoxy.
Out of interes…
Thank for your very informing answer Ramez and Rem.
My question is more addressed to how we can make the prayer itself more fluid and alive as it once was. I only say this because in my personal experience the liturgy has become a dry and boring du…
I still haven't seen sufficient reason why we stopped the use of the Liturgy of St. Serapion for example. This was a liturgy in use for a long time in the history of the church. Why should it be against our Church if a priest and congregation wished…
As far as I am aware, Pope Shenouda did not ban the use of the other liturgies he simply enforced it. This was a somewhat informal canon introduced by Pope Christodolous? I can't remember the name now, but he was in the 12th or 13th centuries and he…
I do not mean anything like the Second Vatican Council that revised its Mass. What I am asking about is allowing more flexibility with the words and prayer of the liturgy without being mechanically devised through a Synod as you are saying.
And thos…
Is it not possible that the 40 day fast existed prior to Pope Christodolous and that he only made it official? If the West was already fasting 40 days since the 5th/6th century, isn't it probably that Egyptians started Advent fasting at an earlier d…
You've all brought up really good points, it just really saddens me when I see very few of the youth willing to attend the praise or enjoy it. A large number of them have told me they hate Coptic, and don't enjoy Coptic hymns.
How do we address thi…
Who said you're not supposed to chant the Antiphonarium in the holy fifty days? Anba Youssef prayed from it during a Midnight Praise we prayed with him last year during the Holy Fifty days.
What is the reason for leaving it out? It does sort of mak…
most likely the status quo, stuff like that doesn't change, and his policy doesn't start to appear until years after he's started his papacy. Most people would not be too accepting of radical change from the legacy of Pope Shenouda.
God Bless
I have the complete app (I got it free somehow), and it says it starts on Thursday, and when I view Friday and Saturday, it says Feast of the Cross and (Palm Sunday tune) in brackets. But when I go to view Sunday it also says it is Feast of the Cros…
I did, I read it a long time ago, I just need a straight answer. Because the Feast of the Cross comes on a Thursday this year, and thus should end on Saturday, but my Coptic App says that Sunday is also Feast of the Cross, so I'm a little confused. …
“Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, be…
You guys have it all wrong, the anti-christ is Obama, no doubt. All this conjecture about who the anti-christ is, including claims that it is Islam (which I would really like to believe), are JUST conjecture.
GB
Note that there is a difference between a Secular state and a secularist state. A secular state is simply a state where politics and Religion are divorced, and that usually is a thing better for Christianity. As Christ said, if my kingdom was of thi…
The truth is, the God of the Old Testament is Racist, and highly selective. But not in the bad way everyone else is thinking, because He had future plans. God is revealed in the Old Testament as being very Selective once Adam and Eve were kicked out…
Theotokos = God-Bearer = Walidat Al-Elah
This is perhaps a more precise name given to her, and was first used in the second century by Origen, if I am not mistaken. Since Mother of God may confuse people. The Bearer of God is more accurate. God the …