I wonder if the papers and minutes from this conference will be published?
The Americas and Australasia Clergy Evangelism Seminar of 2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150226141546/http://www.nynecopts.org/diocese-news/the-americas-and-australas…
Here it is in text form:
THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLS IN US SUBSTANTIALLY (ESSENTIALLY)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/stmaryscopticorthodox/articles/other/the_holy_spirit-dwells_in_us_substantially.pdf
Once again His Eminence Metropolitan Bishoy uses Al-Ker…
Here's a podcast related to the above breakfast programme:
"The mission is the only place that's open in the city of Toronto for the homeless during the winter months at five O'Clock in the morning. Dedicated staff and volunteers come here sometim…
Jenn Live at St John's Mission Part 1
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Jenn Live at St John's Mission Part 3
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Jenn Live at St John's Mission Part 4
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Hi Katanikhoros, here's a paper you might like: "Philanthropia in Liturgy and Life”
http://www.svots.edu/sites/default/files/basilsce.pdf
It talks about St Basil (one of the saints who we ascribe authorship of our anaphoras) and the connection of l…
Here's a cool bit about Presanctified:
"...the question of fast-day Eucharist now divides Rome and Alexandria from the rest of the East. By the sixth century, the Roman fast-day synaxes had become eucharistic, and a similar evolution can be observ…
Here's a recent message sent out by an Eastern Orthodox priest to the parish he serves:
These are the names of the most recent martyrs.
May we be ready to live and witness the faith to the shedding of our blood.
Holy Martyrs intercede for us sin…
In Honour of the 21 Coptic New-Martyrs of Libya
Troparion (Tone 1)
Like meek lambs ye cried out with your last breaths,/
'O Lord Jesus',/
and like roses blooming in the desert of Libya,/
ye shed your blood for the Master./
With godly valour, ye…
Here's an interesting observation by Daniel Keating on St Leo of Rome and St Cyril of Alexandria:
"Like Cyril, Leo teaches that it is the mind guided by faith that recognizes a true distinction of natures in the one Christ. The reality of the Inca…
"I hear: «Then Jesus was taken to the desert by the spirit to be tempted by the devil» (Matt 4:1). It is this good savior who put on the whole man for our salvation. He covered himself with the mortal nature for the sake of the restoration of our li…
"The fifth exegesis that the holy father Apa Rufus delivered on the Gospel according to Luke on the following text: «In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a husband whose …
I once heard someone say that to deny theosis implies that a Church is monophysite and apollinarian. I've also heard that to deny theosis, a Church also becomes fundamentally Nestorian. It is interesting that the Church corrected both Nestorius and …
Just to give some historical context here is Stephen Davis' conclusion from his book:
Matta al-Miskin’s evocative reappropriation of the patristic doctrine of theopoesis has not been without controversy in the contemporary Egyptian church. In a s…
Apologies Rem didn't mean to take the thread off topic. Just thought that speed of the prayers might be related to the theme of beauty and coherence. Sorry bout that, I'm in agreement with everyone that liturgies should be done with reverence and lo…
I was thinking about the topic of liturgical poetry over the weekend and I wonder if the whole controversy over the basic doctrine of Theosis may be the result of sparse mention of it in our liturgical poetry. So it might be present in a few lines o…
La la, I'm asking if we're conscious of the way space affects and incluences hymnology. Also if speculative poetry and theologically rich statements in the liturgical praxis matters. In most cases, the argument for long hymns are an argument from cu…
On one of the other discussions a question was asked if the extremely long hymns were being expressed beautifully, also if the long hymns would be better done more concisely and more care was given to packing the hymns with liturgical poetry instead…
I agree on the aloofness, sometimes we tend to be a bit inward looking. I think back to when the two metropolitans were kidnapped I'm Syria. Since they weren't Coptic we barely thought about them, let alone advocated for them...if even one of "our" …
I wonder if one of the other issues is that our Church has made the concept of theosis a banned topic. Hence people will hear that it is a dangerous, complex or a foreign concept, and everyone should just be simple and not try to understand it. So t…
Hi Rem it's from the same book "Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt" by Dr Stephen Davis
Bishop Bulus al-Bushi - 'On the Incarnation'
Chapter Eight: God Granted Us Participation in the Body of Christ
"Then in his favour he added a confirmation. He willed to grant us participation in that holy body and a connection with it by a most ex…
Also in regards to the iron and fire analogy:
"To this we say, ‘Indeed, the difference between the two statements is that the action of something upon its own essence is impossible. For if one thing grants to another thing its essence, in the sense…