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  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=9640.msg133941#msg133941 date=1300988082] Now regarding brushing the teeth, the Coptic Fathers have a different teaching. It is recommended that you do not brush your teeth in the morning but late at night. [/quote…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=10771.msg133461#msg133461 date=1300732675] Ya Mina, please... it doesn't have to "click in your mind", so a respectable member of this forum start using it. If you are well-educated, believe in proper research metho…
  • [quote author=ophadece link=topic=10771.msg133271#msg133271 date=1300400154] Yes marian6, to some extent... Oujai [/quote] ophadece, can you tell me more?  :) And from which church are you if I may ask? Does the whole chorus pray like this?
  • Just out of curiousity, is anyone of you praying in OB? Midnight prayers for instance? Does your church supports it too? And are you also able to communicate (having conversations) in OB?
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=10771.msg133060#msg133060 date=1300203028] Learn to speak Coptic at www.speakcoptic.org [/quote] Nice site! thnx :) I was just listening to the first lesson on this website and I discovered that Fr. Shenouda Mahe…
  • [quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10934.msg132610#msg132610 date=1299711309] I think that there is a difference between announcing that we are fasting to direct attention to ourselves - which is what the Pharisees did - and just saying that we a…
  • [quote author=jydeacon link=topic=10941.msg132545#msg132545 date=1299637874] Which is why many do not agree with chanting Istermagi since it makes no sense grammatically or any sense period. I do have a pdf with an attempt at explaining it and adjus…
  • [quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10934.msg132415#msg132415 date=1299611215] Is anyone here finding fasting a bit hard due to work committments? [/quote] I usually dont eat anything till 3pm, but the only trouble I meet is during lunch break.  At t…
  • I really feel guilty and ashamed when reading all your posts about how much effort you do in prayer... may God bless you and please pray for me a sinner.. Probably I  am the last one to give advise, but I just want to add something I recently hear…
  • I'm really happy to find people defending the Truth that much :) However, Zoxsasi started this really important topic and I'm still wondering why some people do move to Protestantism then? What is it that we do or dont't do which cause this to occu…
  • [quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10823.msg131567#msg131567 date=1298626883] Even in the holy liturgy - its priest-congregation-priest-deacons responses.. there's no time in the Liturgy to pray for yourself. When can you do that?? ... * God is alread…
  • [quote author=TITL link=topic=10722.msg131508#msg131508 date=1298551969] Lol I don't get bored easily! It's hard to be patient with something when you don't have the talent for it :P Two days was more than enough. I thought. [/quote] hahaha
  • Wow! very nice! Where can I find the original audio and text for this passage? (I mean with a priest praying with this tune) [quote author=TITL link=topic=10722.msg130782#msg130782 date=1297873683] When I was in Elementary School I begged my pare…
  • marenhos epchois, I'm wondering what have you done eventualy?
  • John_S2000, you are amazing!!!! [quote author=geomike link=topic=10653.msg131452#msg131452 date=1298479545] you should learn it man, i said the same thing last summer, and i just found a website with arabic letters, made flash cards and then lear…
  • [quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10674.msg131460#msg131460 date=1298486257] [quote author=mnc_hnn link=topic=10674.msg131453#msg131453 date=1298479971] wow...you've got personal issues. i wonder who's gonna take that personally? [/quote] why are…
  • Zoxsasi, I think our opinions are finally approaching each other :) [quote author=mnc_hnn link=topic=10674.msg131453#msg131453 date=1298479971] wow...you've got personal issues. i wonder who's gonna take that personally? [/quote] why are you co…
  • [quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10808.msg131434#msg131434 date=1298421368] [quote author=marian6 link=topic=10808.msg131433#msg131433 date=1298420583] Thanks to Mina's great website I found the following words: [/quote] i gave you a site?! [/q…
  • [quote author=kmeka001 link=topic=10808.msg131401#msg131401 date=1298407820] I think this is a great idea. Does anyone know the days of the week and the hours (e.g. 1st, 3rd, 6th, etc...) in Coptic? That would be great. Thanks a lot. [/quote] I did…
  • [quote author=dzheremi link=topic=10674.msg131319#msg131319 date=1298333171] In other words, let's not lose sight of what is really important in the situation: God's forgiveness and God's providence. Even if everyone rejects you, God doesn't. Even i…
  • Hi With much interest I have been reading this (14! pages long) thread :P  And probably I'm talking on behalf of many when I say that Fr. Peter has been adding very valuable and benefical comments for which I would like to thank him for that. As f…
  • [quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10773.msg131240#msg131240 date=1298277502] You are not meant to be making the children to like your personality. You should make them love Christ, NOT YOURSELF. [/quote] Yeah, we (I) keep on forgetting that sometime…
  • Dear Mary E., I can imagine you want to believe in this green horse, cause it all fits with the book of Revelation. I also would not like to call this resemblance just a coincidence. However I agree with father Peter and epshois_nai_nan,  believing …
  • thanks for the additional explaination, it's getting more clear now
  • So to use your example, is it also correct to say: aftee ente pefsoma and ti-shouri ente ennoub?
  • Minatasgeel and JG, I'm very impressed you learned coptic just through attending tasbeha!!! :) Wow :o this is a great link: http://copticplace.com/coptic.html. Thank you very much, I didnt know about it. But I already have the book you mentioned b…
  • epchois_nai_nan, do you know when you should go for  `nte and when choose `n? So whats the exact difference or are they both equal?
  • Hi Marenhos Epchois I can imagine you have that feeling, cause sunday school service is a huge responsibility indeed! But it should not matter in which class your serving, 3rd grade or older or even "e3dad khodam", cause its not you who is talking …