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except yr last one, qt, that was 2 painful to be funny, probably none of them quite knew what to do either, people assume culture is absorbed through the skin! in the british orthodox church once, the metropolitan was chatting and i passed the biscu…
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you guys are killing me, i'm trying to eat and i can't stop laughing ;) maybe we will never loose concentration during the mass coz we are watching to see if anything funny happens! lol
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hey just thought i'd confess, i didn't manage to do the psalms this time. my friend and i got lost going round in circles trying to find the cathedral in south england and then when we got near it we just found this big old house and we were looking…
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the agpeya is private as well as communal, i mean u can pray it at home each day. in practice most of us do it when we can as we don't all mange (esp me!) to repeat 7 groups of prayers and a bunch of psalms each day (it contains just under half the …
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ya haram ya habibee, you sound sad. remember we all love you a lot, but not as much as God does :)
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ok, thanks. btw i did the psalms before mass yesterday, although not quite at the right times, it was still lovely though. i am going to church again today (baraka kibeera) :) so will try again, it's a really good discipline to attempt. i said atte…
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i agree that if you can't concntrate you should pray. i would be surprised if anyone can concentrate for 2 or 3 hours! i find about once every 15 - 30 mins i switch off for 1 or 2 mins, usually we are still on the same page in the book / projector,…
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oh, sorry. i read that drinking the holy water does not constitute breaking the fast. i think the priest can't join in with eating falafel sandwiches etc after the mass, because he has not quite broken the fast. is that true? and can any fasting per…
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the holy body and blood were only kept hidden in the byzantine church (later the greek orthodox) and the roman catholic church from about 800 to 1500. in the ealier churches, people realised that these were for all believers and actively encouraged …
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no, but maybe not everyone would be able to share if they have, coz it's the sort of thing that affects you very deeply and is difficult to explain to people, esp to people on the computer you can't see. i have met people who have seen angels and i …
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thanks, i have book-marked my agpeya and will pray. by the time i am 386 years old (at this rate!) i will have memorised them ;)
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jydeacon, could you please tell us which psalms are which? like which when walking, which when bowing etc? and could you give the other numbering system in brackets so we know which system you use? eg psalm 22 (23) is 'the lord is my shepherd' we h…
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no, it's not sinful. but if you spend too much time eating it can lead to neglect of your spritual life. God loves you as you are and wants to talk with you every day. finding your identity in Him can lead to greater contentment and less need to eat…
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george, you are describing the geneva 1990 agreement, which i allude to above. our patriarchs decided in principle that we all (eastern and oriental orthodox) agree, but some of the individual churches have been slower to ratify the agreement than o…
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ok, i'll try to give a short answer, as the long answer takes about a year to read! ;) until the year 451, the churches were all together. everyone was catholic and orthodox and very very evangelical (spreading the good news about Jesus). there wer…
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in the coptic church we fast (food and water) for 9 hours before communion and in this time (or the evening before if all the fasting time is spent asleep) we may attend the evening service (vespers) if there is one, or pray the evening hours from t…
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in our church (coptic), we keep to our own gender for the kiss of peace, but then, after communion we greet some people we know from the opposite gender with a handshake (or occasionally a kiss on the cheek if they are like your uncle/aunt). this di…
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you will habibi, please pray for us too in our weakness
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What matters is to pray. I know my priest's wife prays while washing the dishes and while cooking for all her guests and the church. her kitchen window faces roughly north. the food, and her guests, are all mightily blessed. it is good for people i…
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i like father peter's post, i want to add that fasting is 9 hours before communion, not 8.
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don't take any pills unless your doctor prescribes them! u tryin to kill yrself? the ones we used to have when i was a student were just caffeine but are bad because they (and too much coffee or coke) overstimulates your system and can make u ill in…
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hi mikeandmerit, how are they doing? may God give them strength as they recover from surgery.
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thanks ivan. i heard something like this before, from another source. its an enlightened interpretation.
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Dear hezekiel, my last post was continuing my thread; not specifically answering yours, but i will comment on yours here. there are 2 points in reply: 1. i am no expert on protestant theology in eritrea, but have spent many years discussing theolog…
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hi all, please tell everyone you can before may 24th about this day of prayer. as theophilus said, this has affected protestants more than the orthodox and catholics, however we are all brothers in Christ and it is very important we support each oth…
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qt, the stuff about suing is from matthew 18 and 1 corinthians 6, i see father peter has kindly expanded on that better than i could :) about the rest, i can't really comment, i think it depends on the indivdual case. i have seen a lot of good thin…
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hi, mikeforjesus yes i also noticed dumdum mentioned protestants and atheists in the same breath. thanks for sticking up for them! :) i also think to say it 'is bad' to have protestants is a bit extreme, although i know some protestants give the ot…