Thank you all for your insightful answers :)
I wish we could all have one version for all Churches. This is always awkward when I lead Liturgies in Churches I'm invited because I never know what they will say. And this "I/we" is just the tip of the …
Hi Ophadece,
Thank you for your answer.
Deacons who think the correct way is "Amen, we believe" say that there was a typo in the Coptic, it shouldn't be ϯⲛⲁϩϯ but teⲛⲁϩϯ.In the same way we say in the institution narrative:- We believe- We believe th…
Thanks both of you for your answers :)
To answer your question mabsoota, I'm not Egyptian at all, but French married to an Egyptian girl, living in Australia.Because my wife and I serve often in upper Egypt (half a year every year), I learned Egypti…
I've noticed that on Tasbeha.org and Coptic Reader, they put the "tanween fatha" sometimes on the silent 3alif and sometimes on the letter before the silent 3alif. Here's some examples:
- ولروحك أيضًا.- والمجد لله دائماً.
What is the proper way to p…
Thank you very much mabsoota.
The word God is well written to me, are you refering to a hamza on top on the 3alif like this: أOn my mac it's shift+B
Or a tild to make it an 3alif maddah like this: آOn my mac it's shift+H
They just show how you say it when there's a Bishop or when there's a Metropolitan but not when there's 2 bishops. Plus the Bishop part and Metropolitan part are not linked, it's stopped, commented, then the second part is played.
What I'm looking f…
There are actually more months than Tobe and Meshir where we don't celebrate the 29th of the Coptic (celebrating the 3 feasts).
It's easier to see when we celebrate it than when we don't: between the first 29th of the Coptic month after the Pentecos…
I just watched a Holy Week service with Ibrahim Ayad and he concluded each prophecy even if there were 2 prophecies of the same author like you said Minamakar.
It's not really the same because you don't start the same way- If you chant a psalm you start with "Psalmos to David Alleluia"- If you chant a Tawaf on its own, you start with "Alleluia"
@Minatasgeel: unfortunately in my Church we don't chant the tawaf except when there's a Bishop but we don't chant marouchasf on its own. Which one are you refering to?
@Minamakar: thank you for the recording, that confirms my supposition :)
Hi Minatasgeel,
Je avsaji is not the Vespers/Matins tawaf on Saint Mary's fast, it's supposed to be the Vespers psalm on Saint Mary's feast.The tawaf on Saint Mary's fast and feast is Sotem tasheri.
Ps: I said "supposed to be" because Coptic reader …
Something to note as well, I've never heard the festive tune from HICS from your link (even the common short tune) in a Basilian festive Liturgy, always in a Gregorian Liturgy.In a Basilian festive Liturgy, I always heard the tune from Abouna Botros…
Thank you Minatasgeel :)
In this example, neither Abouna nor the deacon end in a festive tune, yet the Lord have mercy is festive, so there's no one to follow :)
Your comment about the long festive tune made me think of another question.What's the d…
It kind of makes sense, however we also chant parts for martyrs in this hymn, does that mean they are also acknowledged as the first among the Apostles, I don't think so :)
If it's befitting to say it before the praxis reading, a different name than…
I have one last question, what could be the reason for the Church to stop doing this procession on every single Liturgy?
My guess would be that it is for time-management purposes.Doing this procession during every single Liturgy would make the Litur…