in case our admins don't get onto that right away ;) here are some lovely songs with lyrics in arabic and english, i didn't find this myself, but i am passing it on.
enjoy :)
ok, i have a break in my night shift, so i decided to do some internet research for you.
the 1st thing i found was on orthodoxwiki:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Snakes
but this seems to have the same primary source as the youtube clip, so could be f…
it also seems to me that the EO churches venerate the virgin saint mary more than we do. but i don't know that much about the EO position. however it seems the EO position is closer to the catholic position.
i know much more about the catholic posit…
dear bro,
i think it means your brother is unhappy with something. it might be related to the prayer or it might not.
what is your home situation like? (you don't have to answer publically)
if you are free to pray in a way your family can see, then …
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if these teenagers didnt have abortions they might go waste their lives, try to kill the foetus themselves by self harm or abuse the newborn baby as it is all over the news about child abuse.
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the devaluation of the life of a ch…
thanks guys for the info. i will try to answer your questions.
firstly, hi, coming home, nice to have you on tasbeha.org. i also used to be protestant till just over a year ago. actually i started regularly visiting coptic churches 4 years ago, but …
here it is, in english
http://www.agpeya.org/
i personally rarely pray all the hours as it takes me 3-4 hours to do them all and i only have this much time when i am on annual leave!
everyone is a bit different, most coptic people use them as a gui…
we are praying, also for those who don't know the love of Jesus and who can't visit their families across the city/country because the journey is too dangerous (my friend had to wait 3 years before it was safe to see her mum again)
may we have many …
i believe someone needs to turn to God to be saved, even if that person is very nice, and then God Himself shows that person where to find out about the amazing sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and His glorious resurrection. however we can never know…
i used to have evil experiences at night when i was a child, because of a neighbour who used to tell fortunes and put curses on people (she was something like a satanist) but always God protected me, because the devil has NO power over us, he can on…
no, not at all. but this brings another question, why would someone want to move out at 18? like it might be really simple, if someone is working long hours or studying, maybe they no longer want to share a room with their little sister who listens …
i agree with the above, and when you approach him, don't think of his sins, instead think of your own and the forgiveness you have from your repentance and confession. that way you will be encouraging and also humble.
if you are a true friend to him…
welcome pano5!
is that a coptic church in athens? do u do all the greek parts of the liturgy with a proper greek accent or do u do it in coptic greek?
welcome anyway, may God bless you
thank you for your encouragement, marina008
salaam to anyone who had to work all day over the weekend and didn't get to church! (you are like me!)
may God give you peace and patience until you get to church next weekend :)
God is with you when you …
dear childfororthodoxy,
it was one of the deacons/subdeacons on this forum who objected to the term 'transubstantiation' in a previous post of mine, and from what i understand from my other coptic friends, it's the word which copts object to more th…
these are the sort of questions i have; for some reason i have a very strictly logical brain and often fail to understand when things are literal and when they are meant to be symbolic. i have thought about this for years, and would like to give my …
welcome, lennart, i agree.
to some of the other posts, ok, some of us non-native arabs can learn the language and respond appropriately in the liturgy, but the whole idea is that if we are sharing the message of Christ as we should in the non-arabic…
my church (uk) does about half in english and the rest mostly in arabic (some people are new or refugees from eritrea who came via sudan and speak arabic) and a bit in coptic.
we have visitors fairly often, and the translations are on the projector.…
He should discuss with his FOC, as the priest is the one to understand his spiritual needs.
You can put on a lot of weight eating peanuts, as they are 50% fat, or chips (i eat quite a lot of chips during fasting periods to prevent weight loss, espec…
lovely posts.
i will join my small prayers to yours. may God transform our lives to be more like Him so our loved ones and the people we pass in the street will be blessed by our lives and our prayers. People are often touched by our witness more th…
welcome, andrew.
i've been to an antiochian church, the theology is the same but our liturgical prayers are not 'hidden', so everyone can join in and worship. the hidden prayers were a fairly late development in the history of liturgy, i, personally…