Patience brother, although I admire your zeal to get baptized quickly ;)
I can only imagine how excited you must be, but keep in mind that patience is a very valued virtue in our church,
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that h…
I'll have to agree with Irini on this, I love Egypt very much and take pride in being Egyptian yet some parts of Egyptian mentality are really... just typical of a male dominated society where a woman's good reputation is one of her biggest virtues.…
One more thing: I asked abouna why women weren't allowed to go to the front and read from the bible during liturgy.. He said well, it's to prevent any lustfeelings from the men, if there were a woman standing there surely they would focus on her bod…
I've had the exact same problem, I also had exams for the last two weeks, they were my final exams in secondary school and I know I didn't study well enough for them since I had started too late. Yet I prayed God would work with whatever effort I ma…
I think God's existence is proven by the many miracles He performed and still performs today with many people...
The thing is it's not us who prove His exitstence, but it's Him who chooses to reveal Himself to us, as He always did...
I think the r…
I had a question on Timothy:
He said women have to learn in all subjection BECAUSE man was created before women (and other things..)
Doesn't that imply that it was God's plan for women to be like this and that it wasn't a punishment (since in Gene…
I was in Al Muqattam in Egypt once and we were visiting the churches over there and the man present (not a deacon or anything just a man who sits in church..) told all the men who were with us: by all means, go into the mazbah and look around.. and …
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St Augustine, St Moses the Black and St Mina
May their prayers be with us
God Bless
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Humility...
I view it as one of the hardest yet most beautiful virtues, and I see it as a very important virtue to our church and it might even be the key to the beauty and simplicity of it, which have carried it over all those years of persecution…
I can only share with you advice that has been given to me before...
You say YOU can't stop this sin, YOU aren't repenting, YOU !!!
But of course YOU can't do any of that, you need GOD'S help, you might be depending on yourself too much, maybe you d…
I also don't understand:
Why do we inherit the fallen nature but not salvation...
I mean when we're born we don't really deserve any of them... I mean an infant which hasn't sinned nor done good deeds is kind of neutral...
I'm sure these must be r…
I understand what you mean... but what I love about the relationship with christ is that it changes as StMaria said, it might be something you read in the bible, and although you've read it so many times before or something you hear although it has …
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ok...riddles:
if you take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.
Who am I.
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someone's daugh…
Hey Sonya,
I really don't want to worry you even more or anything, but you say you're getting married pretty soon and if these problems are not resolved yet then you're risking a bad start to a bad marriage. I'm Egyptian, lived half my life in Egyp…
Kol Sana wento koloko tayebeen !!!
12Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day's walk from the city. 13When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter…
I don't know if you guys have ever seen those videos on youtube with the exorcism's of father Makary Younan. It's really weird, there are TONS of people in the church and he passes by and touches them and then they get healed. I find it strange that…
It is completely out of your hands and it's not your fault as you said, so here's where God comes in... He allowed whatever this is to come upon you and you need to trust that it's for your benefit IF you stick with Him. I know how difficult it is t…
it's difficult to seperate spiritual life from normal life, since I believe that when you have a good spiritual life that this reflects on your normal life also
I mean if you know God is with you, then all your everyday (non spiritual) problems shou…