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  • Isn’t that your 3 rd thread , I lost the count, about you ex!!... improve yourself by collecting your problem in one thread and use proper and decent words in writing.
  • Dear Iqbal, May the prayers of our holy Fathers give you wisdom, knowledge and strength to rediscover their pearls and fruits of their writing for the Glory of Our Lord and God Jesus Christ, the edification of His Orthodox Church and for the benefi…
  • Dear Iqbal, Thanks a lot, you’ve been of great help Baptism doesn't automatically transform us to a pre-fall condition--it's not a magical formula. It re-establishes the potential to go back to our original state and to even surpass it beyond wha…
  • Dear Iqbal, Sin is rooted in, and is ultimately a product of, the personal will, not the nature. This is something new to my understanding, I really appreciate your clear and concise explanation and it can explain why the saints dose not sin becau…
  • john_paul_elia, Scientifically you can not say any thing without a prove and consider it a fact, what you alleged is a hoax . The Coptic Church was never and is not interested in changing a certain date for a sake of unity with the Catholics. Chris…
  • Dear Anba Bishoy, You can find the article here: http://www.suscopts.org/resources/literature/242/halloween/
    in Halloween Comment by Safaa October 2007
  • john_paul_elia, I do not know if you are an Orthodox or otherwise something else, but it seems from your writing and the way you pursue the subject of a certain date that you are incline and bias toward the Catholic Church. I advise you to ask the …
  • The prayers of the Theotocos, the Virgin and all the Martyrs and Saints be with you. May the Lord Our God Jesus Christ be with you jydeacon, The Pantocrator knows your name and you are inscribed in the palm of His hand.
    in Prayers Comment by Safaa October 2007
  • The Release of the Spirit, by then Abouna Antonious Al Soryany, now HH Pope Shenouda III.
  • Mystery of Godliness by Archdeacon Habib Girguis, who is considered to be the first to usher the spiritual renascence of the Coptic Church in the twentieth century.
  • Dear jydeacon, Excellent response, and the article you were referring to is: http://www.copticpope.org/downloads/eng_keraza/engkeraza23-02-2007.pdf Page 12-13 I would like to say , that there are two schools who would interpret the whole thing of…
  • Thanks Mina, I recognized him from his ordination photo. before his beard grew! Thanks
  • Congratulation, May the Lord Our God Jesus Christ, the High Priest, grant him a holy and blessing priesthood. Mina, I have a question: Dose abouna, before ordination was one of the three laymen who had have the sermon during the last Holy Week?
  • Consecrate to Me every first-born of the children of Israel and in another translation sanctify to Me ...., does not mean offer the first born as a sacrifice or slaughter him. But it means to be separated to God, to serve God.; God wants the best o…
  • Why should we always demand that the Copts adapt to the western music or the music of the new adopted country and not asking the reverse, Why should not the new baptized people get to learn and use our Coptic music and languish. This is the whole id…
  • Andrew, And what does the church say to justify that it really is indeed the body and blood of Christ. Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ, Himeselfe,  said “ This is my Body....., This is my Blood..”
  • This Q & A from Southern Diocese of the United St "And did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son" (Mt 1:25). St. Jerome tells us that the words know and till in the language of Holy Scripture are capable of a double meaning…
  • The Holy Apostolic Church believes in the ever- virginity of St. Mary and one of her title is “ The Virgin “. On the other hand the Protestants dose not hold that dogma and propagates that she married after the Holy conception. In the Book of Ezekie…
  • I just want everyone to imagine what Christianity would be if our Lord and God Jesus Christ had not raised up great men like St. Athanasian the Apostle and St. Cyril the Pillar of faith. These saints defended the faith that was handed down to the u…
  • Excellent posts, thanks to Hos Erof, and Thomas, The Holy Bible was never intended to be a scientific book but rather it tells us about the plane of God toward His perfect creation, the man. That is why heaven and earth will path away but man will …
  • This is the Synaxarion of St. John the Evangelist as held by the Coptic Church, certainly the Church dose not hold the tradition of his assumption to heaven. The Departure of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian. On this day, in the year 100 A.…
  • The concept of general bishops is new to the Coptic Church, was introduced by the reposed Pope Kyrolos V1 and continued by HH Pope Shenouda 111. Before that the Holy Synod used to choose either a sitting bishop or a monk from a monastery.
  • Dear gregorytheSinner, Well, it was God's will that he be picked among the other two nominated holy men: Abouna Matta el Meskeen and Anba Samuel At the start of the election process they were 9 nominees. Abouna Matta Al Maskeen was eliminated in the…
  • Excellent response minagir, Vassilios, if you continue reading on the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John you will find the answer to your question in verse 14 and 18 14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his gl…
  • We, as members of Tasbeha,  aught to ask the Administrator or the Moderator to create a new category by the title “ Vassilios asks and answers too”, so we would have 9 categories instead of the existing 8!!!! Just a suggestion  :D 
  • Dear gregory, The audio and Video for " Our God is an awesome God " :
  • I do not understand the purpose of this thread, you put a question and you answered it, it should be filed under Q & A!!!!!
  • Dear Cevac, God in the old testaments prohibited the Jews from eating certain foods, e.g. pigs certain types of fish, rabbits and so on. From the spiritual point of view those foods were symbolic of the gentile nations which the Lord warned the Jew…
    in Kosher Comment by Safaa September 2007
  • The Cannonical Books omitted by Protestants and included by our Coptic Church are: 1- Tobit: Contains of 14 chapters, and it follows The Book of Nehmia in order. 2- Judith: Contains of 16 chapters, and it follows Tobit in order. 3- Esther: The res…