[quote author=Ioannes link=topic=11645.msg139670#msg139670 date=1308284860]
The fathers did not say they should not wear these things because they are associated with prostitutes! In some cases yes, but because it brings others to lust, take your ow…
He's still under the law. If he truly repented, he wouldn't worry about being judged by the jury and the judge and if he was sentenced to prison, he would probably find a great deal of solitude there to practice monastic life. That's great if he r…
dzheremi and Fr. Peter,
The explanation I heard from my priest was that St. Mary certainly was not married to St. Joseph the Carpenter. This is one of the reasons the Jews sought to stone her at one point. Because she was betrothed to St. Joseph b…
1. Don't worry about my salvation and my eternal life. That's not your concern. You don't know what's dangerous for me or not. You don't know who I am. Don't judge me. I think my FOC has done a good job of keeping me on the right track to my sa…
I go to a church named after her and we have part of her relics!! Sadly, I cannot find her story online but I will try to find a more substantial story than the paragraph I found. Basically, she was a nurse who served in the army with St. Maruice …
irishpilgrim,
It's because of people like you that I have sought to leave Coptic Orthodoxy as a whole, save for one thing that has kept me in it. Men and women are equal in the sight of God, even in marriage; man is head of the woman, that doesn't…
[quote author=mabsoota link=topic=11550.msg139100#msg139100 date=1307478557]
why is it 'ayady, and not 'ayadak?
isn't 'ayady 'my hands'?
language lesson please ;)
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"Ayady" is the plural of "eed"
"My hands" would be "idaya"
Correct me if …
LOL ok...perhaps I need to clarify...when I asked my question, I was thinking of people who work on Sundays, I know that I study on Sundays, I suppose the real question I was trying to ask was: Is it ok for us to be doing that? Oftentimes, I forget…
[quote author=epchois_nai_nan link=topic=11550.msg139043#msg139043 date=1307371012]
I usually say:
Hi Father, KYBH
(Kissing your blessed hands)
:)
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LOL that would be the equivalent of what I'm saying in Arabic :)