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HAHA. This is where bilingualism gets interesting. I thought you meant the 1950's, not the 50 days of Pentecost. Or maybe you did mean the 1950's. In which case, I don't get your point. :-/
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Wow. Even though I didn't read "Gregory of Narek's Commentary on the Song of Songs, it seems this Roberta Ervine is distorting the words of Gregory. Did this Roberta Ervine even give a reference to the location of St Gregory's work that contains "f…
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I know what you meant by Sahidic. There are many meanings of Sahidic. In English, especially when the audience is not Coptic, it most often means a specific dialect that was not confined to Upper Egypt (as many Copts believe). We don't know when the…
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Musically speaking the Acts response is not really "Adam". Adam refers to both the day and the music. Adam hymns have 5 notes per line while Batos has 8+ notes per line. You will notice that the verses taken from the Adam Theotokia, like Shere ne Ma…
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Minasafwat, thank you for the contribution. On a side note, the name "Old Sahidic Asomen tune" is a little misleading. Sahidic really means Sahidic Coptic. This should be more properly called "Alternative Asomen tune used in Upper Egypt" because th…
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I also wanted to clarify that the Big Bang theory and evolution are two separate theories, not a conglomerate cause and effect theory. Thus God initiated the "big bang" (which I am reluctant to use this term because there may not have been any real …
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There is a problem with HH Pope Tawadros' formula for the 2nd or 3rd Sunday of April. Sooner or later, one of those 3 Nicene conditions will be violated by keeping Easter on the 2nd or 3rd Sunday of April. In 2016,Condition 1:This condition will nev…
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Zoxsasi, let me try to answer your question. Abouna explained death in a real simple example. It is not a perfect example but I think it may answer your question. He said when he was younger living in Egypt, his mother had a domesticated cat for yea…
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Dann, There is nothing you can say or nothing you have done that has not been done and confessed at least a dozen times before to every single priest in the world. You will not tell him nothing new that will shock your priest. Feelings of embarrassm…
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Yes I know Mina. I understand why the announcement and the slideshow was removed. This is not what I'm talking about really. The announcement and slideshow illustrated to me an ambiguous ecclesiology. The underlying reason for AOCA is good but the d…
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Well these would not be translations. These would be original manuscripts in their original languages categorized in this structure. These are primary sources. You are asking about secondary sources. But to answer your question, many of these are t…
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These are not manuscripts. These are the library structure of St Shenoute Society. He lists categories but it doesn't mean he has all these manuscripts. It was a structure formula established years ago that is not really used.
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Mina,I hope my comments on the AOCA is not taken as an attack on AOCA. God knows how much I love HG Bishop Youssef and the SUS. I merely presented counter arguments for HG and the clergy to consider. It is important that any objections to AOCA are a…
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This post offers no answers to my questions on ecclesiology. Can the Coptic Church create a diocese within a diocese? Is the AOCA a separate entity or not? In addition, this excerpt from canadox.ca builds a false dichotomy. In his mind, it is either…
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There are some ecclesiology problems with this statement and the AOCA? Is the AOCA a diocese within a diocese? Or more importantly, can a Coptic diocese create a non-Coptic diocese within its borders? This document states there is a distinction bet…
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Yes, that is the one. Just keep in mind, all Bohairic grammars are extremely simplistic. They wouldn't pass beyond 6th grade English equivalent books. So in my eyes, all Bohairic grammars are just as simplistic as that website. But that's all we hav…
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Very Early Sunday Morning was discussed a few years back. I'll try to find the thread. Basically for Very Early Sunday Morning, the focus of the theme is what Jesus' Resurrection does for me: "Resurrection made me strong", "Resurrection gives me joy…
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I will tell you what is not appropriate to sing during the Distribution: Truly Risen and Very Early Sunday Morning. Very Protestant (evangelical) hymns that have no Orthodox understanding of the Resurrection.
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Zoxsasi, I already responded to this in another thread. You need to click on the hymn where it says download and when it opens, right click and hit save.
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Let's take a step back for a moment. "Music, generally speaking, lends itself to preservation of all the fine arts, and compositions with and performance from notation is still a peculiarly Western tradition that distinguishes it from other musics o…
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I am going to have to agree with dg920 for most of what he said. I wish to add some science to the discussion. There are only 3 PhD studies (that I know of) that deal with Coptic sacred music. One of them is Magdelena Kuhn's 2007 German thesis "Die…
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You said she is a linguist. That website is meant for beginning level introduction (something equivalent to third grade English lessons). I don't know if a linguist would want that. Coptic in 20 lessons is Sahidic Coptic and it really requires the f…
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Ophadece,I actually agree with you on the terminology of OB. Even the terminology for GB is not adequate. But how do we distinguish the two phonetic inventories of Bohairic Coptic? What terminologies do you suggest?Of course, we should not revert to…
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No but when you find it, send it over to me.
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Not for me Ophadece. For those who can only pray in OB or refuse to pray in GB. I can pray both and I have already said in the past that I prefer OB. But I refuse to believe OB is better or more authentic than GB. I also refuse to believe that OB sh…
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So what you're trying to show is that the confession of Chalcedon must be understood as synonymous with the condemnation against Dioscorus. In other words, if I take the Chalcedonian formula and rewrite it as "This one and the same Jesus Christ, th…
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dg920, is it an actual synodal decision or is it a papal endorsement of the language committee's findings?
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I don't think that's any better. Unless they set a fair policy to formulate "how everything should be pronounced", it's still a big waste of time. It's going to come down to preference and not any actual thought. In addition, it doesn't change the …