Hi everyone this might sound silly but:
Are we the Orthodox Church in Alexandria? The Orthodox Church in Egypt? The Orthodox Church in America? The Orthodox Church of Alexandria in America? The Orthodox Church of Jerusalem that went to Alexandria a…
Hi qawe I've heard that Fr Peter Jon Gilquist's compositions were developed for youth conventions...they're more folk sounding (think campfire music) than big rock band. Also I don't think they were written or intended as "worship" or "liturgical" m…
Who is eligible to attend the One Copt Convention?
All graduates and young professionals born between October 30, 1992 and October 30, 1974. All new, young Coptic Orthodox graduate converts or Catechumens are especially welcomed to attend. NOTE: Al…
This is a beautiful vision for a mission minasoliman.
There was a panel on mission at St John's recently and some of the points brought up were:
- "There's a big temptation for a church to serve itself and to live for itself, either individually …
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Does anyone know of these two fractions are an older recension that might have been prayed irregularly in some churches and not in others? Are they from the Ethiopian recension? Or from a Coptic manuscript? Or were they newly composed?
Speaking about missions I recently heard a podcast on AFR of an Orthodox mission and Abouna mentions that a Monk visited. Does anyone know who that Monk is?
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/parables/a_holy_death
The mission featured on the po…
Maybe the focus on Coptic today is a legacy of nationalist identity politics that helped build the modern Egyptian nation? Even theology can be "nationalized" and National Identity "spiritualized". The teaching and living of the Orthodox Faith is t…
"3. That SYNDESMOS actively encourage the close co-operation on a local and regional level of youth movements of both families of our Churches. This co-operation could take the form of regional and local committees, retreats with biblical and liturg…
Here's a cool reference:
"In Abbasid times there were more Christian thinkers interested in the philosophies and sciences of the Greeks than just those Aristotelians among the Jacobites and the Nestorians who took their texts and commentaries from t…
Hi all, are there clergy and servants in our Church who do teach actively about theosis and the implications? Like who use the term directly and encourage people to live and encounter life in the Trinity?
Here's an interesting mention of St Dionysius in "The Coptic Christian Heritage" edited by Omina Lois Farag.
"Dionysius refuted millenarianism based on a critical study of the Apocalypse of John. Interestingly enough, in this critical study Dionysi…
Here's an interesting quote:
"Scripture cannot give us a complete intellectual knowledge of God's nature; rather, it gives us a record of the impact of God's operations or energies upon human beings, shaped by the guidance of the Holy Spirit so as …
I wonder if the eight tones were used like how the Greeks and Syrians use them? Like how the tones cycle throughout the year even through feasts.
The Russians added four voices but the usage is similar to the Greek Typikon:http://commons.orthodoxwi…