I don't know of any videos, but there are various Coptic-language liturgies here on Tasbeha in audio format:
http://tasbeha.org/mp3/Divine_Liturgies/Fr_Ishak_Awad,_Liturgy_of_St_Basil_Coptic.html
http://tasbeha.org/mp3/Divine_Liturgies/H.G._Bisho…
This is an interesting topic. Before anyone criticizes the English attempts too much, it is important to remember that there are structural/morphological reasons why it can be harder to rhyme in English than in Arabic. English no longer has much of …
I think that could be said about just about anything we do, Meena. Not that I disagree with your point, but...well, if we're going to be discouraged from doing something because we don't do it with God in mind first and foremost, then most of us (in…
Ah, see...now we're getting somewhere. Not to dodge your question, but since you've realized that God doesn't necessarily work on our timetable, then...well...there's your answer. It applies to things we'd rather it not apply to (things we'd like th…
Maybe he means "catholic and Orthodox" in the way that Orthodox Christians mean it when they say their church is the catholic church? I don't know. I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because there may be some cultural and linguistic dif…
I would not have phrased anything in the way that Geomike has phrased it, Khas, but I think there is a point to be made here. If Henk is here to learn, he is going about it in the wrong way by starting from his assumptions (as all do), and sticking …
You are welcome to join the Coptic Church, but please try to leave your assumptions at the door. There is nothing wrong with the Coptic Church being concerned with Egyptian issues, because that's where the vast majority of Copts come from, and the c…
Exactly, Ioannes. We dislike ideologies, not people. And in that, we are right to do so! Islam is not your Muslim friends or my Muslim friends. It's the Qur'an, the Hadith, the Sira, the different schools of Fiqh, the Shari'a, etc.
So Sufism or n…
Boy, there is some mighty specious reasoning going on in this thread. Can we all drop the "not ALL Muslims are bad" shtick? We're all adults here (I'm assuming), and we should be able to talk about ISLAM (the political-religious phenomenon) without …
Hey, I'm doing that! ;D God-willing, of course...
Depending on your girlfriend's knowledge of her own Church, it might help to discuss with her some of its stances and attitudes towards the Oriental churches, including the Coptic Orthodox Church. A…
I feel like the way the question is phrased in the OP is biased to receive the kinds of answers that would confirm the questioner's preexisting ideas of Coptic people. I'm not a Copt, but I'm also not going to make assumptions about how they feel or…
Indeed. It is sad that so many in the West who do not have the intimate experience of living with an Islamically-dominated society that Middle Eastern Christians have actually advocate for Islam under the guise of "freedom of religion". Okay, fine..…
Remember: If God wouldn't help anyone who sinned then no one would ever be helped. Thank the Lord for His mercy that He does not ever neglect us as we neglect Him. May He comfort your nerves and help you achieve success in your exams.
Exactly. I have a friend from Saudi who likes Christianity a lot, but was confused when I told him that the attack on Sayidat an-Najat church in Baghdad was wrong because the Syriac Catholics in Iraq have no say in what the Copts do in Egypt, and be…
I only understood about half of it, and I still feel sick. God save Egypt from disturbed people like this man and the others like him. God protect the holy Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Welcome to Tasbeha, Zolo. I'm glad that you're here asking questions.
The whole methodology of the atheist (in that video, and I would suspect more generally, with regard to those who see it as a mission to save the world from God) is completely wr…
Thanks for reminding me about this thread with your response, Smirser.
It turns out I fractured a bone in my foot. It is healing, but very slowly. I don't need money. Just time and a comfortable place to sit for a few more weeks. :)
Thank you ver…
Furgeson "Diglossia" (1959), in Huebner, Thom (ed.) "Sociolinguistic Perspectives: Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994" (Oxford Uni. Pr., 1996) states, with reference to phonology of H (high/classical form) and L (low, e.g. colloquial dialect) …
I can't for the life of me find an abstract for the Furgeson article. It is a dim memory at this point, some 3 or 4 years after the fact, but I do have several works by Furgeson in my library, so I'll check and see if it's in any of them (they're an…
Ophadece, when you mention the "language of the Qur'an" do you mean Qur'anic Arabic specifically, or just Arabic in any one of its national varieties? Because about Qur'anic Arabic, I remember reading a paper as an undergrad by Charles A. Furgeson (…
You misunderstood what I wrote. "Few things could impress them more than cooking" means that there are other things that could impress them, but skipping over those things, you should learn to cook because that is more impressive then most of the st…
What did I have in mind about "knowing how to cook"? I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Have a few dishes that you know how to make so that you can cook for yourself and for her. It's a lot better than always being dependent on someone else to co…
Hahaha. How is picking on me helping the OP, Ms. "I burnt the house down making brownies"? :P
I can cook several things, thank you very much. I read directions at a near-professional level.
I also got A's in English. My big problem subject was always Math (still is). I think it's rare to find people who are good at everything. Just do your best and try to avoid obvious pitfalls, like the "no late homework" one.
DanieM: What's an "E"?…