Yeah, he's getting baptized already. RIGHT NOW, in fact. He left at 5 a.m. this morning. I couldn't get him to postpone it by mentioning how I couldn't be there. He just said "Don't worry; I'll bring back lots of pictures." Great, great. :-\
No, he's not Orthodox and never has been (just like me, I suppose), and he's joining some weird "church" that doesn't believe in the Trinity or the divinity of Christ. I guess it is a bit like the Jehovah's Witnesses, but it's not the same organizat…
I heard from the representative of the Coptic community in Albuquerque the other day, who told me that their liturgy is roughly 80% English and 20% Arabic and Coptic. The congregation, such that it is (7 families, meeting in a private home), is mixe…
And then there are those cases like in my home state of California, where gay marriage legislation doesn't pass and that failure gets attributed to the undue influence of a minority of powerful bigots (Mormons, and Catholics, and Hispanics, OH MY!).…
Yes, fine, I agree, Ioannes...but surely most of us know what is immodest without even having to look, much less have it in our faces like this? If some misguided woman (or man!) thinks that the church is the place to wage a war over their identity …
People come and people go. Your relationship with God is the only one that really matters, because it's the only one that will last forever. Work on that, try to make it the best you can and the most important one, and you will be blessed beyond mea…
I do not understand why this is happening. I do not think it is appropriate. If you are making some kind of point, I am afraid that it might be lost in the way you are choosing to make it.
Make your point with words, not with breasts, please.
I'm not sure about the first part of your question (respected by who?), but yes, they are considered doctors, as being a licensed psychiatrist requires a doctorate, to the best of my knowledge.
Does this mean that I will have to do the same? I have all the same faults as GLM listed, and probably in greater proportion. Maybe we should all be quiet, to learn the value of silence and to choose our words carefully. I know I could stand to lear…
I don't know the majority of Copts, but I would be very surprised if that wasn't the case for the majority of any particular cultural group that is strongly identified with a given church, not to mention extremely confused how any of us could ever p…
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sometimes the problems we have are in ourselves and so we take them with us when we leave.
the road to happiness is to let God take you anywhere and experience anything an…
You are in my prayers, Bigeee. No matter where you go or how you feel about yourself or what you've done, God is with you. Just don't forget that, please.
Hi Sudani. I am probably not the right person to tell you what you should do or who you should follow, but I am curious why you think God is destroying your life, and you think abandoning your faith will fix it? I understand you have not had success…
Dear GODloves me, for my own edification, please: Is St. Joseph not considered as the husband of St. Mary in the Coptic Orthodox tradition? I have not read irishpilgrim's posts as they evoke a lot of disapproval from others, so maybe he had some oth…
Bigeee,
Your pain and suffering are real, but are not greater than God's love and care for you. Please read Psalm 27, as it is in times like this that you will be able to most connect with it. Particularly, remember Psalm 27:10, when David the Prop…
Well, I wouldn't say I know English better than an actual English person... ;)
But I DO know words, and according to Etymology Online (a very nice website for these kinds of questions), "eminence" first appears c.1400 with the meaning of "projectio…
Is it Rabbena Rabbena geh 3alashana? My Arabic is pretty bad, but it seems to match the melody pretty well, and the words I recognize are the same or very similar... ;D
(There are a few other versions in the related videos for the one you linked,…
Oh, okay. I thought maybe another artist who was Coptic also did the same song, but when I put the title into Google she came up as the artist. Also, it sounds a lot like her to me. :)
Thanks for asking this. I have asked this before privately, and was a little surprised to find out that Copts do not have some sort of introductory phrase. Catholics do, so I guess I got too comfortable with that.
Anyway, I don't see what is wrong …
I defer to Ophadece or Remnkemi to correct me, but it is my understanding that the adoption of Greco-Bohairic pronunciation was and is at best fairly uneven throughout Egypt, where dialectical differences persisted for so long due to the remoteness …
This is a wise lesson that you have learned, Bigeee. It is one that I am constantly re-learning. If you are faithful in small things every day, it will become a part of your character and will help you to become faithful in big things.
Theophilus, thank you very much for your insights. I come from an area with a large Habesha community (relative the length of time they've been here, anyway; I'm only 28 and I can remember when they first started getting their own cultural centers, …
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Menas,
You will be bannned from communion from the orthodox Church - because they will not recognise your marriage IF you get married in the Catholic Church.
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Unfortunately my knowledge of Hieroglyphics is also null, but I can provide an academic (linguistic) counterpoint to the somewhat fanciful claims* of the Lulu book: Satzinger's The Egyptian Connection: Egyptian and Semitic Languages (this is where I…