Well for me a true repentance is realize what you did is actually a sin, then you need to pray to God to forgive you that sin (and truly feel sorry when you are praying), then you need to go to abouna and tell him the sin (confess), and then try to …
well repent, confess, have a pure heart, understand what you are partaking from ( that it's not just wine and bread), believe that you are actually having communion with Christ, believe in the transformation that happens to the bread and wine and kn…
I think this verse is about communion. Like you can't take communion, unless you repented, confessed and so on. So when you go take communion without all of that, you are taking it in an unworthy manner and bringing judgement to yourself by doing so…
I personally don't think it's a "sin" or considered wrong, because when you buy that cup, you aren't bitting on money when doing that. I don't think any of those prizes really happen, and if they do, they will be like 1 of million maybe, but let's s…
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that touches a bit about the view of the church on lottery...the church is against it.
I don't know about the first question...but the second question, yes I actually heard from my abouna that this is one reason they use to live longer until Noah and after the flood, people started eating meat and from that time, we see their age begi…
Who says we don't love strangers ???..I don't think anyone who isn't Egyptain has the right to label us something that they don't know.
I saw both cultures..I lived in both...and Egyptains are far more loving and caring then in America or Europe...
SO i just had to say to u Marianne and Im only 20 so im no grandpa....and I speak arabic soooo the egys tend to stick to their own...
We are immigrants in a foregin country...don't you think it's natural for us to stick with our own.
Welcome WMA great to have you here and in the coptic church as well.
Forgive me quisutdeus but I am in need to respond to your comments. Well I am a teenager who was born and raised in Egypt, and if someone was to come to my church here (and in fa…
As I understand...each is still responsible for their own spiritual life. I was thinking the same as you, until I was recently corrected. When you repent...it needs to be coming from your heart not from the other person's heart. So you are still one…
Great things meaning she is going to carry God inside her womb, not because an angel appeared. I don't think Mary was necessary pregnant at that time the angel appeared to her, but at that moment where the Holy Spirit was on her, then she was pregna…
Genes are the main difference between a female and a male. In the case of a male, their sex gene is XY and in case of a female, their gene is XX. If that where the argument is about, not something in the mind that triggers that then I get where they…
You can't get a laugh out of tempting someone...whether it's during fasting or not. It's just wrong. And tempting someone in general isn't right at all. Only God can make the decision of whether someone should be temtped or not.
The sacrement is called Repentance and Confession, if you are going to confess, you need to repent first, not the other way around. You can't go confess and then say you will repent.
If you truly feel that this particular sin is horrible and you w…
I think this was specificaly to the disciples, and since priests are from the disciples, they are the one who are able to forgive...anyone feel free to correct me on that.
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one of the pictures Pope Kyrillos that day was the day of his ordination he started crying because he didn't want the replacement of Pope Youannes 19th![/quot…