a full deacon does.the guys wearing tonias and singing at the front of church are not actually deacons.they are chanters, readers or subdeacons.people call them 'deacons' for short, but they are not actually ordained like full deacons are.
a full de…
welcome to the forum:)the person who wants to be a monk should pray at every opportunity, read the Bible at every opportunity, confess and take Holy Communion a lot, and should be famous for being very kind and forgiving with everyone.he should (or …
if someone is having this degree of physical and emotional distress, but still does not talk to her father of confession, then something has gone wrong somewhere.the confession father should have been involved from the beginning of the troubles, hel…
please send him a personal message so he can share this with us :-)i love anba tomas!
more information here:
http://anchorites.tripod.com/copticanchorites/id10.html
:-)
the septuagint calls it a 'huge sea creature' (see the orthodox study Bible, jonah 2:1).
i don't think jonah went back and dissected it in order to check that it was correctly classified, so we'll just have to accept we'll never be sure until we can…
dear 'anba antonious',i love your screen name :) i rarely post these days as i got busy in real life, but i want to reassure u that not all churches outside egypt are like your description.please make friends with uncles / aunties or people outside…
dear sister,did you talk about this with a priest?if you would like to reply by personal message you can (if you don't want to write more here).i have been married for a little longer than you have been alive and an orthodox Christian for 7 year (pr…
there are no 'bad omens' in the church, we don't believe in bad luck etc.we follow Jesus Christ our Lord and do His will and He protects us.
but if your finger bleeds you should lick it and swallow the blood, and if you can't, you should catch the …
ma'alish.
i copied and pasted the screenshot but it did not work (don't know how to upload stuff to forums).
what i found is that i can't download from lists of songs, but i CAN download from the name of the song when it is next to the lyrics of th…
dear friends, please don't despair.start by going back to church.tell God 'ok, i don't have great intentions, but please help me to have better ones'.
you both have lots of time to spend your future lives in the church, so don't delay, start a new l…
i tried both these; neither works.i have a (rather old) macbook.it used to work in the old website format.
and i'm using much less internet these days (to not waste time) so it means i don't stream songs anymore while cooking the dinner!
:(
but i…
i admit, i never read it that fast myself, but u did say you had lots and lots of time!;-)
at least read the gospels or the letters from the apostles, give yourself some goal that is not too hard.may God bless your study :-)
pray, read the Bible (all of it), go to all the church services during the week and help the old people or your neighbours.once you have done all this (and i do mean read the whole Bible), then you will know what to do next :-)
the 'immaculate conception' is the catholic (roman) belief that saint mary was conceived in a special way, it is nothing to do with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being conceived / born from a virgin.
we don't agree that: 1. humans inherited sin …
i heard a lot of useful discussion went on. everything i heard was very strictly orthodox.i think we have to wait and see what they say later, and pray.i am confident we are not going to see some new liberalism with fasting and prayer being optional…
coptic. was always in the main stream coptic church (3 years intermittently, then 6 years as a member).won't say where publicly, but you can send p.m.i will not be on line for Holy Week.not coz i'm holy, but i have no internet!
'see' you after the R…
no, i don't listen to any non orthodox Christian music!i don't even know the song you mean.for 2 years before i was orthodox i was going to anglican and catholic churches so i was already not listening to that music.i had experienced orthodox music …