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Didn't we already resolve this? The use of the indefinite (more accurately partitive) tense for pneuma has nothing to do with theology. Those who don't understand want to interject a theological reason that ends up creating an anti-Orthodox, anti-th…
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"There is no hard rule of pronunciation in any natural language. When one sees hard rules for Coptic as conveyed in modern books teaching Coptic, one realizes that these rules do not produce a real natural language such as GB." And when one sees the…
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I wrote my response in a file beause it exceeds the word count limit. Hopefully this works.
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Ophadece,What false claims did I make about GB? As far as I can tell, most of everything you wrote corroborates what I wrote. The only difference is you continue to claim GB pronunciation is based on individual "whims". I claim it is based on multil…
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I had a response ready to go last week and it disappeared. Once again, "God works in mysterious ways". ;) Now to your question. Really, I don't like answering questions about pronunciation because the question implies a "correct" vs incorrect way to…
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You are operating on the assumption that musical notes are more universal in character. It is for classical and european music, not so much for foreign music. Let's compare it to linguistics and language. English is "more universal in character" tha…
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I've done that. I gave musical transcription of Eporo to a pianist. She had a lot of difficulty with it. And to my ear, it sounded so foreign because Western transcription cannot transcribe 1/64 note that we have in our hymns. There was so much embe…
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I must say that musical historians know that Coptic sacred music cannot be transcribed by Western musical notation. It will not work. The best you can get is either (1) a distant approximation or (2) and embellished version of Coptic music to fit in…
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Your question is ambiguous at best. Nearly every English translation of St Cyril's theological works writes "Mother of God" or "Theotokos". I understand Mother of God is not a 100% translation of Theotokos, but at this point, Mother of God is in fac…
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Simple. Each diocese, bishop, hegumen, has their own process for selecting a candidate. The basic, universal core element is simple: Prayer that God chooses a shepherd for Himself. The details of the process vary. As far as I know there is no standa…
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As far as I can tell, Set (or Seth) is a male (not female) Egyptian God, the brother of Osiris. He was the god of the desert, storms, disorder, violence and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. Now Seti was (male) pharaoh of Egypt from 129…
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Not exactly Mina. Kima means black. Egypt is called Kemi because it is the land of black (fertile) soil. Chemistry means "Black science". Some if not most of the words from Copticworld (not ophadece's list) seem to be incorrect. I don't think they …
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It's not popular nowadays but I think it was popular in patristic writing and possibly in ancient Greek churches. Despina apeirogamos is popular title for the Virgin Mary. Think of it more as an alias. In essence they are still calling it St Mary Ch…
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Here in Boston, we have a parish name Holy Family Coptic Orthodox Church. I haven't figured out the right the best Coptic translation from "Holy Family". We use the doxologies and hymns for St Joseph the Carpenter and of course St Mary. And my last…
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Are you having trouble reading and writing Coptic in Mac in general or MS Word (Mac or Windows)? I don't know what "chopped up" means. If you are talking about unrecognizable characters, the most likely reason is you don't have a unicode font (that…
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I know many people have a gripe against Metropolitan Bishoy of Damiette so it would not be surprising that anything he says receives a lot of backlash. However, let's think this through. If Met Bishoy or any Coptic bishop said "all men must not wear…
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My article death extensively with Ibn Kabar's passage of the Octoechos was just published in Coptica 12 (2013), Strategic Intertextuality in a Coptic Description of the Octoechos, pp.57-76. You can contact St Shenouda the Archimandrite Society for i…
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Of course any infarctions should be addressed in private with love. However, we can't excuse or condone any person, priest or bishop, who justifies the introduction of charismatic praise. It is not doing the best with what they have. They have Copti…
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No. Regarding point #4, no Charismatic or anti-Orthodox custom should ever be introduced in the Coptic Church. Period. Even if a priest approves it, it should be vehemently opposed and reported to the Pope. In fact, there is a Synodal decree banning…
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Even if I were to concede that the EO missions in America failed because of communism or that the communities wanted their own ethnic enclaves, it would necessarily mean that missionology and ecclesiology have not pastorally answered or addressed th…
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Cyril,The hymns are said in the vernacular. The problem is not the use of Coptic per se. It is the incessant cry to have 100% in English even though no one actually wants it. In reality, 99%+ of Copts don't want 100% English. They want somewhere aro…
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mina, If the BOC "lost communication" with the Syrian Orthodox Church, I assume that means they separated from communion with the Syrian Orthodox. Would that not mean they lost Apostolic succession also? In this sense, they were no different than sc…
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I believe the development of the British Orthodox Church into the Coptic Orthodox Church was based on much more complex issues than a simple missionary projects. The BOC was never meant to be Coptic, but British Orthodoxy under the umbrella of Copti…
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Cyril, are you trying to press mina's buttons? Rather than diverting the talk here on missionary, maybe someone can reference the last thread since we discussed already. But suffice it to say Orthodoxy is theosis. No one is misreading St Athanasius.…
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No that would not be pluralism if it is Christian. But not everything done in Christian churches is Christian. The means do not justify the ends here because the end itself is not Christian. Just using anything to bring people to Church without a co…
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I don't know who initiated the diocesan meeting. I also don't know why the LA diocese did not include Bishop Michael. I don't think it had anything to do with ranking but I can't speak for them. I don't think the 33 page thread is deleted. I'll look…
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This is a matter of codicology. Different manuscripts include "for Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory forever Amen." and many do not include it. (I only examined Matthew 6:13) In English,NKJV: Included. NIV: Not included. RSV: Not include…
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"Another form of "simple is better" can be a slight variation: "Taeta and Gido don't know the hymns and they are not shamas kabeer...But they are simple and therefore saintly."Or "Taeta and Gido are not theologians they're simple and don't need to h…
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I like it because it moved away from a modern heavy metal rendition of Syriac chant to recognizing the superiority of the chants in their ancient version. However, the last comment in the documentary is troubling. He wants to preserve it as a musica…